KYIV (Reuters) – Russian shelling hit the Kherson region in southern Ukraine on Monday, killing two civilians and injuring at least eight others, local authorities said.
“At present, we are aware of seven victims following the bombing of a (bus) in Kherson. Two men and five women,” the region’s governor, Oleksandr Prokudin, said on the messaging app Telegram. , adding that some of them were seriously injured.
The bus was at an intersection when a shell exploded nearby, local prosecutors said.
“Residential buildings, power lines and vehicles were also damaged,” prosecutors added on Telegram.
According to Oleksandr Prokudin, Russia also attacked unspecified critical infrastructure in the region, depriving residents of four small towns of electricity.
The Kherson region is crossed by the Dnieper River and Russian troops control the territory on its eastern bank. The city of Kherson and the Ukrainian-held areas on the West Bank are regularly bombarded by the Russians.
A cemetery in the village of Kindiyka in the region was also targeted by gunfire, which killed one person and injured a 62-year-old man, according to Oleksandr Prokoudin.
The city of Kherson was targeted by intensive shelling overnight, which killed an 85-year-old woman, Roman Mrochko, head of the city’s military administration, said on Telegram.
Another missile strike in the morning hit an administrative building and equipment at a shipyard in the Black Sea region of Odessa, local prosecutors said, adding that four workers were injured.
These attacks follow attempted Russian drone strikes in southern, central and northern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian army said it destroyed the 12 drones and two missiles fired against the regions of Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi and Dnipro.
Russia has not commented on these bombings.
(Reporting Pavel Polityuk and Yuliia Dysa, French version Stéphanie Hamel)
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