Nearly 40 FAB-500 bombs have been dropped on areas of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic, with unexploded ordnance lying in Yenakievo, Shakhtarsky, and Makeevka districts, each guarded by police.
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Another ASTRA report, on May 15, said that almost 40 FAB-500 have been dropped on areas of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) which lacks the resources to deal with them.
The two main Russian axes of advance, pushing northwest of Avdiivka and west of Bakhmut to Chasiv Yar, both align squarely with Russia's minimal strategic goal of taking all of Donetsk Oblast
In the Liman sector, Ukrainian troops repelled two enemy attacks.
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