Russian shelling kills three women in Ukraine’s east, governor says

KYIV (Reuters) – Russian shelling killed three women in a small village in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, governor Vadym Filashkin said.

Filashkin said Russian forces hit the village of Cherkaske with cluster munitions in the morning, killing the women, aged 43, 45, and 53, wounding a man, and damaging at least nine private houses and cars.

He urged residents to leave in a message on the Telegram messaging app. Reuters was not able to verify the report independently.

Russian artillery, bombs and missiles have been hitting settlements in the Donetsk region for months. Ukraine’s military reported about 100 clashes in the Donetsk region over the past 24 hours in its daily frontline update.

Russia has dismissed accusations that its forces have regularly targeted civilians since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.