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Russian troops have launched a missile attack on a residential building in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast. Source: Zelenskyy on Telegram Quote: "The city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast. Donbas, of which Russia is trying to leave only broken and scorched stones.

Five civilians were killed and 18 injured as a result of a Russian missile strike on central Pokrovsk, in Donetsk Oblast, which damaged several high-rise buildings. Deputy head of Ukraine's State Emergency Service (SES) in Donetsk Oblast was killed and several rescue workers sustained injuries.

Russian troops fired two missiles at residential buildings in Pokrovsk, a town in Donetsk Oblast, on the evening of Aug. 7. As of 9:20 p.m., the death toll had reached five people, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported.

Dozens of Russians and their families are making their way to Mariupol, the besieged Ukrainian city where thousands have died during the war.

Serhii Lysiuk, a resident of the Starokostiantyniv hromada of Khmelnytskyi Oblast, has died while dealing with the aftermath of a Russian attack. [Hromada is an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories - ed.

President Volodymyr Zelensky described the attack as a "war crime" and perpetrators as "beasts".

Dmitry Peskov, Spokesman for the Russian dictator, has said Russia allegedly does not want any other Ukraine's territories, just the four oblasts and Crimea that were illegally included in the Russian Constitution.

On the evening of Aug. 6, the Russian military shelled the village of Olhivka in Kherson Oblast, injuring a 73-year-old and 77-year-old womаn.

Ukrainian forces destroyed 21 units of Russian military equipment and six ammunition depots at the southern front line over the past day, Brigadier General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi reported on Aug. 6.

Russian forces shelled seven communities in Sumy Oblast on Aug. 6, damaging homes.