Donetsk
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made changes to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's Staff, dismissing and appointing several officials, including the former head of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the former commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On Monday, July 15, Russian troops dropped two 250-kilogram guided bombs on Lyman, Donetsk region, injuring five people aged 27 to 50 and damaging three buildings.
Two explosions were heard in occupied Mariupol, Donetsk region, and helicopters and airplanes were seen flying over the city.
Over the past day, Russian troops fired 3380 times in the Donetsk region, damaging 37 civilian objects, including residential buildings, administrative buildings, cafes, shops, educational institutions and cars, resulting in one civilian death and 11 injuries.
People are under the rubble in Myrnohrad.
On July 13, Russian troops killed 6 residents and wounded 11 others in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Two people were killed and four wounded in Donetsk region as a result of Russian shelling of agricultural enterprises and residential areas.
In the Donetsk region, a power brigade came under enemy fire, injuring the driver, and the building of the control center was destroyed by Russian shelling, injuring two people.
During nighttime attacks in Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, air defense forces shot down four enemy drones, and one drone left Ukrainian airspace in the direction of Belarus.
Ukraine's armed forces drove the Russian army out of the village of Sotnytsia Kozachok in Kharkiv region, while the Russian army advanced near several settlements in Donetsk region.
Police captain Dmytro Petrenko was killed in Donetsk region when a Russian drone hit his official car while he was on duty.
Russian occupation forces dropped a bomb on the Liman, injuring at least 4 people and damaging houses and cars.
At least 4 people were killed and 9 wounded as a result of shelling in Donetsk region, in particular, the towns of Myrnohrad and Kostyantynivka were affected.
Rescuers in Donetsk region have recovered an unexploded Russian Smerch multiple rocket launcher that fell among residential buildings in Sloviansk.
More than a thousand civilians have been injured by enemy explosive devices, including 297 deaths. Russia deliberately uses anti-personnel mines against the civilian population of Ukraine, violating international laws and customs of war. Therefore, the SBU is preparing an evidence base for The Hague on this massive use of mines by the occupiers.
After an enemy attack on a fire and rescue unit in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast, ruins were left behind, but the rescuers moved to another unit and continue their work despite the difficulties and constant shelling.
In occupied Donetsk, a so-called "court" sentenced former security assistant to the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission Vadim Golda to 14 years in prison on espionage charges, alleging that he allegedly collected data on "industrial facilities that were later targeted by missile strikes.
Five people were injured in a Russian strike in Rayhorodok, including one person who died.
On July 11, Russian troops shelled 16 settlements in Donetsk region, killing four people, including a 15-year-old boy, and injuring 21 others, including two children aged 14, and damaging 108 civilian objects.
On July 11, 2024, as a result of Russian shelling in the Donetsk region, 3 people died, including a 15-year-old boy, and 19 others were injured, and residential buildings and vehicles were damaged.
Russian propagandist and FSB agent Sergei Lebedev, who directed Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities and spread disinformation on Kremlin TV channels, was sentenced in absentia by a Ukrainian court to 15 years in prison for high treason committed under martial law.
In June 2024, at least 146 civilians were killed and 672 injured as a result of Russian attacks in Ukraine, with the majority of victims in Donetsk and Kharkiv regions.
According to the Ministry of Culture, a 110-year-old church in Donetsk region was partially destroyed by Russian shelling.
Two civilians were killed and one wounded as a result of Russian shelling of 12 localities in Donetsk region over the past day.
On July 10, Russian troops attacked the village of Novoekonomichne in Donetsk region, killing at least one person and wounding another, and damaging several houses.
23 men from different regions of Ukraine tried to illegally cross the state border with Moldova by paying an organizer and crossing in a grain truck, but were detained by border guards.
Japan has handed over 2 Nikken mechanized demining vehicles to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine to help in the disposal of explosive ordnance, which will be sent to Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.
Russian troops attacked Kramatorsk in Donetsk region, wounding 3 people, including a 6-year-old child.
The invaders are bringing Russian police officers to the TOT to fight the Ukrainian underground under the pretext of fighting "extremism," which in Russia means any dissent against the will of the Kremlin, including love for one's homeland.
Ukrainians in the temporarily occupied territories who were forced to take Russian passports to survive will not be held responsible for this, assures Dmytro Lubinets, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.