3 killed in Russian shelling of Kherson, say Ukrainian officials
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First responders work near burnt-out cars after a reported deadly Russian artillery strike in Kherson, Ukraine.
PHOTO: REUTERS
KYIV – Russian shelling on Nov 20 killed three people and damaged power lines and a gas pipeline in the central Dnipropetrovsk and southern Kherson regions of Ukraine, the authorities said.
An elderly woman was killed and a man injured in Russian artillery strike on the town of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk’s governor said.
“A power line and a gas pipeline were damaged,” Serhiy Lysak, the governor, said on Telegram messenger.
On the morning of Nov 20, two drivers were killed when Russian forces shelled a private transport company parking lot in Kherson, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.
Regional prosecutors opened a war-crimes investigation into the artillery strike, which occurred at around 9am and injured one other person, the regional prosecutor's office reported.
Images posted on Telegram showed firefighters dousing cars that had been blasted apart, one day after a separate strike on the city wounded five people, including a 3-year-old girl.
Russian forces have regularly shelled Kherson from across the Dnipro River since the regional capital was vacated by Ukrainian troops last November.
Ukraine said last week it had secured a foothold on the eastern bank of the Dnipro and that its troops were trying to push Russian forces further back. REUTERS
