Russian shelling kills three in Ukraine’s Kherson region
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Russian shelling on Nov 16 killed two people and injured at least five including a woman, 54, who was taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds.
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KYIV - Multiple Russian shelling attacks in and around the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Nov 16 killed three people and injured at least a dozen, the region’s governor said.
Kherson was recaptured by Ukrainian forces in 2022, but has been shelled relentlessly since by Russian forces from the opposite bank of the Dnipro river.
Three people died in separate shelling attacks throughout the day, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.
Morning strikes on the city killed a 68-year-old man, while an evening attack killed a 75-year-old woman in her apartment, he said in posts on social media. A 54-year-old woman was taken to hospital with shrapnel wounds.
Russian shelling on the town of Bilozerka, about 8km west of Kherson, killed one person and injured four others during the day.
The evening strike also injured eight people – six of whom were hospitalised, Mr Prokudin said in a post on social media.
Ukraine’s air force meanwhile said it had downed one cruise missile and 16 out of 18 Iranian-designed attack drones launched by Russian forces overnight.
Ukraine also said on Nov 17 that thousands of people living in towns and villages near the front line had been left without electricity by recent Russian strikes on energy facilities.
President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters this week that Russian forces were likely stockpiling missiles for systemic strikes on his country’s electricity grid during winter.
The Energy Ministry said in a statement that the front-line regions of Kharkiv and Donetsk in the east, and Kherson in the south had been hardest hit by recent outages.
“As a result of shelling in Kherson city, more than 28,000 consumers were cut off,” it said. “Almost 3,000 consumers were left without electricity in the region over the past day due to shelling.”
In the eastern Donetsk region, which the Kremlin claimed to have annexed in 2022 along with three other regions – including Kherson – fighting had left dozens of places without electricity, said the ministry.
“As a result of the shelling, an overhead line was damaged, and the city of Kostyantynivka was cut off. In total, 122 settlements remain without electricity in the region,” it said. AFP
