Seven people were killed by Russian shelling in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Sunday, including an infant and a 12-year-old boy, said Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. Russian shells hit two villages on the sea coast between the Dnipro and Pivdennyi Buh rivers. Some areas of Kherson are without electricity after a series of Russian attacks that damaged power lines.
(Bloomberg) — Seven people were killed by Russian shelling in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine on Sunday, including an infant and a 12-year-old boy, said Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. Russian shells hit two villages on the sea coast between the Dnipro and Pivdennyi Buh rivers. Some areas of Kherson are without electricity after a series of Russian attacks that damaged power lines.
The upswing in violence comes after Moscow vowed to retaliate for attempted strikes on Saturday against the Kerch Bridge that connects occupied Crimea with mainland Russia. Air defense shot down as many as three missiles fired from S-200 systems in the first attempt to strike the bridge in daylight. Ukraine didn’t confirm its involvement. Russia said Sunday it shot down a drone in the Kursk region, northeast of the Ukrainian city of Sumy.
Ukraine’s troops continue counteroffensive operations in at least two sectors and reportedly made “tactically significant advances” on Saturday along the administrative border between Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts, said the Institute for the Study of War, citing Ukrainian sources. Heavy fighting is underway for control of Urozhaine, a strategically important village that could open up a pathway to Mariupol, the Azov Sea coastal city largely laid to waste by Russia last year.
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