Missile event in Donetsk Oblast, Druzhba area, Ukraine on Sun 5th March 2023

Russian military conducts 10 air strikes in Donetsk region: police document consequences of Russian shelling. The enemy carried out 38 attacks on civilians over the last day, almost every third attack was an air strike. There are killed and wounded. A child is among the injured. The towns of Avdiivka, Bakhmut, Kostyantynivka, Kurakhove, Myrnohrad, Siversk, Chasiv Yar, Velyka Novosilka, Kurakhivka, villages of Berdychi, Druzhba, Kamyanka, Karlivka, Krasnohorivka, Lastochkino, Pryvillia, Tonenke, Khromove were under fire. Russian troops attacked with aircraft, S-300, Grad, artillery, and mortars. Twenty-eight civilian objects were destroyed, including 16 residential buildings, a fire and rescue unit, a recreation center, a garage, cars, and a gas pipe. Six X-59 missiles hit Adiivka, and the town was shelled 15 times in total. An apartment building was damaged, there was no information on casualties. The occupants conducted two more air strikes on the village of Lastochkino, injuring a civilian. The occupiers hit Myrnohrad with a R-27 missile, damaging 4 private houses. An artillery strike in Kostyantynivka damaged the premises of the rescue station, service and civilian vehicles, and critical infrastructure. An employee of the State Emergency Service was wounded. The Russian army shelled Druzhba village with artillery, damaging 2 private houses and a garage. A child born in 2005 was wounded. As a result of the enemy attacks, we have dead in Bakhmut and wounded in Kurakhove, Chasovyi Yar and Siversk. The police and the Security Service of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings under Article 438 (violation of the laws and customs of war) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. With the help of the police, 160 more people have been evacuated, bringing the total number of people evacuated since the start of the mandatory evacuation to 48,526, including 6,446 children and 2,356 people with disabilities. Fenix insight: Reported use of: six Kh-59 series air-to-surface missiles; modified missiles of the S-300 SAM systems; 122 mm artillery rockets; tube artillery projectiles, which potentially covers 122, 152 and 203 mm; and mortar munitions, which potentially covers 82, 120 and 240 mm. An R-27 series missile, normally an air-to-air missile, has also been reported. As there are no munition fragments or remnants visible in the source images, Fenix Insight cannot confirm with any certainty that the munition identification is correct.