A Kherson city official said 15 civilians were killed Friday in a Russian bombardment of the city, from which Moscow troops recently withdrew. She said several “private homes and high-rise buildings” were damaged in the strikes.
Fifteen civilians were killed Friday in a Russian bombardment on the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, announced an official of the city, from where troops from Moscow withdrew recently. “Today, 15 residents of the city were killed and 35 injured, including a child,” as a result of the Russian strikes, said Galyna Lugova, head of the city’s military administration, on social networks. She said several “private homes and high-rise buildings” were damaged in the strikes.
Nearly half of kyiv residents without electricity
Despite the efforts of Ukrainian engineers, nearly half of the inhabitants of kyiv were still without electricity on Friday in winter temperatures, two days after Russian strikes once again targeted essential infrastructure. Moscow’s strategy of bombing energy installations, followed since October against a backdrop of military setbacks, is a “war crime” for Ukraine’s Western allies and described as a “crime against humanity” by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We have to endure this winter – a winter everyone will remember,” he posted on Facebook on Friday. For his part, the governor of the southern region of Kherson, Yaroslav Yanushevich, announced the evacuation of all patients from hospitals in the city of the same name, from which Moscow troops withdrew two weeks ago, due to “constant Russian shelling”.