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Situation Summary
Several more villages northwest of Donetsk city reportedly fell under Russian occupation during continued Russian offensive operations in the region. Intense fighting also continued in the direction of Kupiansk and in the area of Vovchansk in the Kharkiv region. In the Zaporizhia region, Russian forces advanced near Robotyne, south of Orikhiv.
Russian shelling, drones, and airstrikes killed over 20 civilians in the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Sumy regions. On 27 July, Russian rockets struck Hlukhiv in the Sumy region, killing two civilians and wounding at least a dozen, half of them children. Russian forces subjected Kherson city’s civilian infrastructure to daily artillery fire and drone strikes, resulting in the deaths of at least three civilians. Meanwhile, reports continue to emerge of Russian authorities deporting children from occupied regions to Russia. On 31 July, the Ukrainian government claimed that Russian authorities forcibly transferred an unspecified number of Ukrainian children from occupied Bilovodsk to a military training camp in the Novosibirsk region of Russia.
