{"id":1348135,"date":"2026-01-23T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russian-army-strikes-private-sector-in-donetsk-region-four-killed-including-a-5-year-old-boy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:00:58","slug":"russian-army-strikes-private-sector-in-donetsk-region-four-killed-including-a-5-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russian-army-strikes-private-sector-in-donetsk-region-four-killed-including-a-5-year-old-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian army strikes private sector in Donetsk region: four killed, including a 5-year-old boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Tuesday, January 22, at 10:50 p.m., Russian troops shelled the village of Cherkaske in the Kramatorsk district. The target was a private sector hit by a Geran-2 drone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Donetsk_obl_prokuratura\/4992\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p> The attack killed four civilians, including a 32-year-old man and his 5-year-old son, as well as two neighbors. Five other people were injured, including three children aged 12, 14 and 16, as well as the dead boy&#8217;s mother and a 34-year-old woman.<\/p>\n<p> Doctors recorded blast injuries, burns, and abrasions in the victims, with the condition of three assessed as serious and two as moderate. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-1-1-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1348120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-1-1-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-1-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-1-1-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-1-1-650x438.jpg 650w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-1-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> Two residential buildings were destroyed as a result of the shelling. The victims were in their own homes at the time of the attack. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-2-1-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1348123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-2-1-1024x690.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-2-1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-2-1-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-2-1-650x438.jpg 650w, https:\/\/prm.ua\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/original-2-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-kryvomu-rozi-kilkist-postrazhdalykh-cherez-rosiysku-ataku-zrosla-do-12-sered-nykh-dvorichna-dytyna\/\">the number of victims in Kryvyi Rih as a result of the Russian combined attack, which occurred around 11:00, has increased to 12<\/a> .<\/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 Tuesday, January 22, at 10:50 p.m., Russian troops shelled the village of Cherkaske in the Kramatorsk district. The target was a private sector hit by a Geran-2 drone. This was reported by the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor&#8217;s Office. The attack killed four civilians, including a 32-year-old man and his 5-year-old son, as well as two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1348117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76874,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1348135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-war","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348135","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1348117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}