Russian shelling ripped into homes in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Sunday morning, officials said, an assault that killed at least seven people, including a family of four, in an area that had already borne a heavy toll from relentless Russian bombardment.
Calling it “another tragic day” for the region, Mr. Prokudin said that shelling had also killed two men and injured a woman in the village of Stanislav.
The claims about the attacks in the Kherson region on Sunday could not be independently verified, and Russia’s Ministry of Defense did not immediately comment.
But it has been under nonstop shelling since November, when Russian forces retreated from the regional capital, the city of Kherson, across the Dnipro River.
From their new positions on the river’s eastern bank, Moscow’s troops have launched regular and deadly attacks on the city they once occupied and the towns around it.
Persons:
Shyroka Balka, Oleksandr Prokudin, Prokudin
Organizations:
Russia’s Ministry of Defense
Locations:
Kherson, Ukraine, Shyroka, Stanislav, Russian, Dnipro