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KRAMATORSK, UKRAINE (JAN. 5, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL)

1. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED SETTLEMENT, COLLAPSED HOUSES, PEOPLE CLEARING DEBRIS KRAMATORSK, UKRAINE - JAN. 5, 2025: At least one person was killed and another one injured in a Russian attack on Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, on Monday, Jan. 5, according to local sources.

Residential areas were also damaged in the airstrike, the sources added.

On Saturday, Russia claimed that it took control of another settlement in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.

The Defense Ministry claimed in a statement that its forces captured the village of Bondarne, some 26 kilometers (16 miles) east of the city of Kramatorsk, the administrative center of the eastern Ukrainian region, since Moscow captured Donetsk city in 2014.

Ukrainian authorities have yet to comment on Russia’s claims, and independent verification of the claims is difficult due to the ongoing war.

Russia started its "special military operation" in Ukraine in February 2022 to "denazify" and "demilitarize" Ukraine.

According to its memorandum for the settlement of the conflict, Moscow has demanded a ban on Kyiv joining military alliances and withdrawal of Ukraine's troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, the regions it annexed after a referendum in September 2022, among others.

Ukraine has called the terms an "ultimatum" and has called for a ceasefire as a prerequisite for meaningful talks.