Russia said Friday its forces had captured a village near the embattled supply hub of Pokrovsk and another near the industrial town of Kurakhove, gaining ground in two key areas of the east Ukraine front line.

Russia claims it took two villages in Ukraine's Donetsk region

According to local prosecutors, Russian assaults in the eastern frontline Donetsk area of Ukraine caused at least six fatalities and thirteen wounded. Four people were killed and ten more were injured after a Russian missile targeted an administrative building and a bus stop in the town of Myrnohrad, northwest of the Donetsk, which is under Russian control.

Russia-Ukraine War: Frontline situation between Russia and Ukraine remains tense

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Russia claims it took two villages in Ukraine's Donetsk region

Russia-Ukraine War: Frontline situation between Russia and Ukraine remains tense