On Wednesday morning, Russian troops shelled the town of Novohrodivka in the Donetsk region, injuring a man and damaging civilian infrastructure and administrative buildings.
Russia is firing between 1,500 and 2,500 shells and rockets at Ukraine's war-ravaged Donetsk region every day and is targeting critical infrastructure to make it harder for people to remain there in winter.
As a result of a Russian missile attack on the town of Myrnohrad in Donetsk region, a local school was destroyed. Also, 12 houses and a local shop sustained damaged.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree appointing Oleksandr Nadtochii as head of the main directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
The bodies of five people have been found under the rubble of a three-story building in the town of New York, Donetsk region, which was destroyed by Russian guided bombs on January 15.
General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of the Tavria operational and strategic grouping of troops, has said that Russians have concentrated most of their efforts on the Donetsk region.
In the Donetsk direction, the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have adjusted HIMARS fire to hit Russia’s Buk surface-to-air missile (SAM) system.