{"id":1282008,"date":"2025-08-18T20:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russians-attack-cities-in-donetsk-region-with-artillery-and-aerial-bombs-four-dead-and-many-injured\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T07:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:36:56","slug":"russians-attack-cities-in-donetsk-region-with-artillery-and-aerial-bombs-four-dead-and-many-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russians-attack-cities-in-donetsk-region-with-artillery-and-aerial-bombs-four-dead-and-many-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Artillery and Airstrikes Target Donetsk Cities: Four Killed, Numerous Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Monday, August 18, Russian occupation forces shelled the Donetsk region with artillery and aerial bombs, targeting the cities of Kostyantynivka and Dobropillya.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Donetsk_obl_prokuratura\/4381\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the regional prosecutor&#8217;s office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As it became known, the Russians dropped a FAB-250 with a UMPK module on Dobropillya, killing a woman. Three more men, aged 26, 31, and 74, were injured, and doctors diagnosed them with mine-explosive injuries, fractures and shrapnel wounds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, the enemy attacked Kostyantynivka: the occupiers fired 5 Smerch MLRS missiles at the city. Two civilians died from their injuries. Four residents also received shrapnel wounds, mine-explosive injuries, and a laceration, and the condition of some of them is assessed by doctors as moderate to severe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, Russian troops shelled Kostyantynivka with artillery, killing a 74-year-old pensioner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is noted that apartment buildings and private houses, a restaurant, and a store were damaged in the epicenters of the explosions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Under the procedural leadership of the Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivska district prosecutor&#8217;s offices, pre-trial investigations have been initiated in criminal proceedings on the facts of war crimes,&#8221; the report says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We will remind you that on August 18<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiiany-vdaryly-po-zaporizhzhiu-bahato-postrazhdalykh\/\">, the Russian occupiers launched two ballistic missile strikes on Zaporizhia<\/a>, resulting in the deaths of three people and the injury of many others.<\/p>\n<p>Also, follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, August 18, Russian occupation forces shelled the Donetsk region with artillery and aerial bombs, targeting the cities of Kostyantynivka and Dobropillya. This was reported to the regional prosecutor&#8217;s office. As it became known, the Russians dropped a FAB-250 with a UMPK module on Dobropillya, killing a woman. Three more men, aged 26, 31, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1282004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1282008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282119,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282008\/revisions\/1282119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1282004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}