Russian Attack Kills 2 in Donetsk Region

A Russian attack on the settlement of Sofiivka in the Kramatorsk community of the Donetsk region killed two people and injured two others, the State Emergency Service (SES) of Ukraine reported on Aug. 23. The strike caused extensive destruction in the area, damaging 141 private houses.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. During search-and-rescue operations, emergency workers recovered the body of one victim from under the rubble of a private house. Rescuers dismantled approximately two tons of building structures before concluding the recovery effort. The attack also ignited fires in three separate locations. Firefighters extinguished a blaze in an outbuilding and localized fires at a private home, two civilian vehicles, and the damaged structural elements of another house. However, the SES reported that firefighting efforts had to be suspended due to the threat of repeated Russian shelling. Ongoing strikes across Ukraine The attack on Sofiivka is part of a broader wave of deadly Russian strikes across multiple Ukrainian regions over the weekend. Early Sunday morning, Aug. 23, a Russian jet-powered “Shahed” drone struck a residential area in the Osnovyanskyi district of Kharkiv. The strike injured eight people – including a 15-year-old boy who suffered an acute stress reaction – and sparked fires in private homes and an outbuilding. On the afternoon of Saturday, Aug. 22, a Russian ballistic missile strike in the Boryspil district of the Kyiv region killed two people and injured five others. The strike damaged a warehouse, a car parking lot, multiple vehicles, a private household, and a gas station. Other Topics of Interest Putin Claims Strikes Have “Positive” Impact After Deadly Mall Attack After a Russian double-tap strike on a Kryvyi Rih mall killed 16 people, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that attacks on Ukraine impact combat operations in a “positive way.” In a separate series of attacks on Saturday, Russian forces launched seven strikes on the Zaporizhzhia district, killing three people and injured 15 others, including a child, while also causing damage to several private houses in the area. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization, reporting since 1995. Its international reach – 97% of readers are outside of Ukraine – make it truly Ukraine’s global voice.