On the 645th day of the war, Russia continues to advance on Ukraine. As a result of the Russian shelling of the Donetsk region, at least 10 people were injured. At night, Iranian-made kamikaze drones fired at various regions of Ukraine. Three quarters were shot down by air defense systems, Ukrainian officials say.

Ukrainian soldiers in the Zaporizhzhia regionPhoto: Ozge Elif Kizil / AFP / Profimedia

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 645, LIVETEXT:

08:44 Ten people were injured and five were buried under rubble after a nighttime missile attack by Russia in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on Thursday, Reuters reports.

Russia fired six rockets at three settlements in the region, most of which are occupied by Russian troops, Klymenko said in his Telegram channel.

“The shelling covered Pokrovsk, Novogrodivka and Myrnograd. As a result of the explosions, 10 people were injured, including 4 children. They are looking for five more people under the rubble,” the minister said.

He also said that among the victims is a family with two children and two 13-year-old children. An apartment building, nine buildings, a police station, cars and garages were damaged.

Russian forces have captured most of Donetsk, and Russia has said it plans to take over the entire region.

Ukraine’s military said Thursday that its air defenses had shot down 14 of 20 drones in a Russian attack overnight.

Summary for the last 24 hours:

  • Zelenskyi visited Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson: “There are many problems, almost all of them concern security”
  • Ukraine suspects Russia of poisoning the wife of the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kyryll Budanov, said Andriy Yusov, the spokesman of the State Security Service.
  • Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had taken control of a village in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region
  • According to British intelligence, Russia may have started using 500-kilogram cluster munitions much more often in Ukraine
  • The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Peter Szijarto, said on Wednesday that “under the current circumstances” the member states exclude Ukraine’s accession to NATO.
  • Ukrainian hackers with the help of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) hacked the website of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation
  • On Wednesday, Poland announced “intensified control” of Ukrainian trucks returning to Ukraine
  • Oleksandr Pumpyanskyi, son of Russian tycoon Dmytro Pumpyanskyi, won an appeal against sanctions imposed by the European Union on legal entities or individuals who support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
  • Russia has confirmed the death of Major General Volodymyr Zavadsky during the war in Ukraine.
  • The Union of Motor Carriers of Slovakia (UNAS) has decided to block the Vyshnye Nimetske – Uyhorod checkpoint on the border with Ukraine from December 1.
  • For the first time in history, Russia was not elected to the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

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  • Wednesday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro