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Over 5,000 Ukrainian villagers have been urged to flee as Russian forces slowly but steadily advance in the war-ravaged Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
“It is dangerous to stay here! Be responsible! Evacuate!” said regional governor, Vadym Filashkin, on social media after two women were killed by shelling in the streets of Ukrainsk.
Mr Filashkin has been pleading with residents of frontline villages to leave, but many elderly residents have resisted the calls.
Moscow’s forces are also eying the city of Toretsk, where 700 residents have been evacuated in the last three days under heavy Russian bombardment.
Local officials said Russian glide bombs have also been used in the mining town where 5,000 remain as Russian attacks continue to put stretched Ukrainian frontline units on the defensive.
On Monday, Russia claimed to have captured two more villages on the eastern front, but Ukraine reported heavy ongoing fighting close to the settlements.
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A Ukrainian air force official has confirmed the Russian attack on Myrhorod airfield but sought to downplay its significance.
“There was an attack. There are some losses, but not the ones the enemy claims,” Yuriy Ihnat said late on Monday after Moscow claimed to have destroyed five SU-27s and damaged two more.
Ukrainian sources reported that prior to the strike a Russian reconnaissance drone was able to fly above the airfield.
“There is not enough means to destroy reconnaissance drones,” Mr Ihnat said, adding that they were a “very serious threat”.
He added: “It flies and reports everything in real-time, then Iskander missiles arrived in a couple of minutes. It is obvious.”
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When war tore through the idyllic village of Bohorodychne it blasted nearly every house, writes Ben Farmer.
The homes are now largely empty shells, while the pale blue walls of the church are sprayed with shrapnel and its golden domes are smashed.
Nearly two years after the village was liberated from the invading Russian forces after heavy fighting, little reconstruction has taken place and its lanes are quiet.
The village is largely deserted, but not quite. Of around 800 residents living in the village before the war, some 24 have returned.
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Russia’s defence ministry claimed that its forces destroyed five Ukrainian SU-27 fighter jets and damaged two more on Monday.
The ministry published footage which it said shows the Iskander-M missile attack. Smoke and flames can be seen above what is reportedly Myrhorod airfield in Ukraine’s Poltava region between Kyiv and Kharkiv.
On June 27, Starokostiantyniv airbase in western Ukraine came under attack as Moscow claimed it was targeting airfields it believes will house F-16s.
Ukraine’s depleted air force is expected to receive its first batch of the long-awaited fighter jets from its Western allies this month but has not revealed where they will be based.
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