They have occupied villages previously liberated by Ukraine, wiped out entire towns, and introduced new threats to the region’s overall defense. Alongside Chasiv Yar, Niu York, and other to…The Kyiv IndependentGeorge IvanchenkoRussian attacks on eastern Donetsk Oblast on July 27 killed five residents and wounded another 15, Governor Vadym Filashkin said on Facebook.The biggest number of fatalities was reported in the village of Ivanivka, around 20 kilometers east of the city of Pokrovsk. Intense fighting continues in Donetsk Oblast as Russia seeks to occupy the entire region.In Kharkiv Oblast, Russian strikes against the Chuhuiv and Kupiansk districts killed an elderly woman and injured a 54-year-old man, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported.The attacks destroyed or damaged five houses, an agricultural facility, and an industrial facility, according to Syniehubov.Russian troops also attacked the town of Hlukhiv in Sumy Oblast on July 27, killing a child and injuring 14 other people, the local authorities reported.Ground zero: How a Ukrainian boy battling cancer and his mother survived Russia’s missile strike on children’s hospitalAt about 10:30 on the morning of July 8, just minutes before a Russian missile slammed into Kyiv’s main hospital for children, 4-year-old Dima Dorontsov was waiting to receive his final dose of chemotherapy at the oncology department with his mother Viktoria Zavoloka alongside.