💥 Attack

Russian forces are conducting heavy battles in the Pokrovsk direction and targeting front-line villages with aerial bombs.

August 4, 2024 Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast

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Kyiv Independent Kyiv Post UNIAN Censor.NET

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Source Reports

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Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

Heavy battles continue in the direction of Pokrovsk

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Russian forces are targeting communities with aerial bombs every day

Kyiv Post → Source tone: likely

The enemy seems to have broken through the chain. Assault operations north of Zhelanne continue

UNIAN → Source tone: likely

The enemy is concentrating additional forces in the Chasiv Yar area, with recent events showing they managed to capture the Kanal microdistrict and are now focusing efforts around Kalynivka where the water surface and canal make crossing easier.

Censor.NET → Source tone: likely

Occupants shelled Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk, and Bakhmut districts, resulting in one killed and one wounded.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

Russians fired 27 times at the settlements of the Donetsk region over the past day.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:26:27.875Z

Source story: over-700-children-evacuated-from-donetsk-oblast