Fighting
- At least eight people were killed and multiple others wounded after a Russian missile attack hit a popular hotel and apartments in the city of Pokrovsk, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, officials said. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said civilians and rescue workers were among those killed. According to witnesses, two missiles hit the centre of Pokrovsk within 40 minutes of each other.
- Russian-installed Donetsk Mayor Alexei Kulemzin accused Ukraine of shelling the city of Donetsk, killing three people and wounding 10.
- Russia’s defence ministry said Ukrainian troops were trying to regain positions in the Kupiansk direction but Moscow’s forces had repelled five attacks, the state news agency TASS reported.
