Russian shelling against the frontline Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar killed at least five people on Saturday, according to the regional governor.

The attack struck a high-rise building and a private home, Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said. The victims were reportedly aged between 24 and 38. Filashkin urged the remaining civilians in the town to leave the front line.

Russian forces have been attempting to push deeper into the partly-occupied eastern Donetsk region. Its total control is one of the Kremlin’s primary ambitions.

Meanwhile, Russia’s Defence Ministry announced that it had captured the town of Pivnichne, also in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region.