{"id":46359,"date":"2025-03-22T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/three-dead-in-eastern-ukraine-after-russian-shelling\/22\/03\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-03-22T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T22:01:09","slug":"three-dead-in-eastern-ukraine-after-russian-shelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/three-dead-in-eastern-ukraine-after-russian-shelling\/22\/03\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead in eastern Ukraine after Russian shelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At least three civilians have been killed by Russian shelling in the front-line city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine&#8217;s eastern Donetsk region, officials reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Another person was injured, the regional governor Vadym Filashkin wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the public prosecutor&#8217;s office, the shelling took place in the early afternoon and hit a residential neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was still being investigated what weapons system was fired at the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Russian troops are only a few kilometres from Pokrovsk, encroaching on the vital transport and logistics hub from the east, south and south-west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The city has been a focal point of heavy fighting for months and suffered extensive damage. Only a few thousand of its former population of 60,000 remain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited military units defending this section of the front on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/three-dead-eastern-ukraine-russian-202322672.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three civilians have been killed by Russian shelling in the front-line city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine&rsquo;s eastern Donetsk region, officials<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/three-dead-in-eastern-ukraine-after-russian-shelling\/22\/03\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/dpa_international_526\/9c08182b2e6bc50e6065f95353bf2a42","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}