Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka residents clean up after repeated Russian shelling

Two Ukrainian cities woke up on Friday to sweep away the destruction caused by recent Russian attacks.

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00:00Two Ukrainian cities attempted to sweep away the rubble on Friday after repeated Russian

00:08attacks.

00:09This includes the bombed community of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk Oblast region.

00:15One resident says he was injured because of Moscow's overnight shelling.

00:19We spent the night in the basement, in a two-story house, until the morning.

00:26In the morning I came in and everything was like this.

00:29Well, in general, I don't know, it was such a mess, you couldn't lie down, you couldn't

00:33rest.

00:34There was an ambulance.

00:35I showed them, they said, look, look, there seems to be no shrapnel.

00:39Roughly 55 kilometres northeast, residents boarded up windows and cleared away broken

00:45glass in the Ukrainian city of Kostya-Yenivka.

00:48At 6.30 in the morning, as if it was lighted up, as if it was welded with such fire, and

00:58bang, bang, and it began to fly, and we were nearby, on the roof, I heard bang, bang, bang,

01:04bang.

01:05Everything calmed down.

01:07The attacks on Ukraine's east comes as Russia continues to push further into Donetsk Oblast.

01:13Donetsk is one of four Ukrainian regions Moscow recently claimed to annexed in its 2022 full-scale

01:19invasion, an allegation Kyiv rejects and says is illegal.