Drone shows shelled railway in Ukraine's Donetsk region

STORY: Footage filmed on the ground shows a large crater on a railway line and a nearby house damaged. It also shows missile wreckage at the site.

Ukraine's military said it had repelled nine Russian attacks on Tuesday (May 24) in the Donbas and that Moscow's troops had killed at least 14 civilians there, using aircraft, rocket launchers, artillery, tanks, mortars and missiles.

Reuters could not immediately verify that information.

Russian forces intensified their assault on two key towns in Ukraine's industrial Donbas region on Wednesday, with constant mortar bombardment destroying houses, killing civilians and threatening the last escape route, Ukrainian officials said.