KYIV, Ukraine, June 5, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Russian forces killed one person and

wounded five more in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, which is suffering the
most intense assaults from Moscow's army, regional authorities said
Wednesday.

The Kremlin claimed to have annexed the Donetsk region along with three other
regions in 2022, despite not fully controlling them and Russian-backed
separatists have held the region's main city of Donetsk since 2014.

"One person was killed and five were wounded. These are the consequences of
bombardments this morning in the Donetsk region," its governor Vadym
Filashkin said on social media.

He said one civilian was killed and four others wounded near the town of
Toretsk and that another person was wounded by a separate aerial attack on
the frontline town of Selydove.

The Kremlin says its forces only target military infrastructure in Ukraine
and AFP was unable to independently confirm details of the attack.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week that Russian forces
were focusing their main firepower on the Donetsk region and not the
northeastern Kharkiv region where they launched a new offensive last month.