According to an official of the city’s military administration, yesterday, 15 civilians lost their lives and 35 were injured, including a child.
The Ukrainian government has begun evacuating civilians from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, which Ukrainian forces recently recaptured after months of Russian occupation.
One hundred people, including 26 children and 6 patients, were transported by train to Khmelnytskyi, in western Ukraine, the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure announced late yesterday, Friday evening.
It is noted that under the pressure of a counterattack by the Ukrainian forces, the Russian forces, which had invaded and taken control of the city in early March, withdrew from Kherson in mid-November.
However, the Russian forces maintain positions on the other bank of the Dnieper River and fire their artillery from there. In addition, Kherson’s infrastructure has been damaged to such an extent that the Ukrainian government has advised citizens to temporarily leave the regional capital.
Yesterday “15 civilians were killed and 35 were injured, including a child” by Russian shelling in Kherson, the city’s military administration official Galina Lugova said in a social media post. Lugova clarified that many “private houses and tall buildings” were damaged.
“The Russian invaders opened fire on a neighborhood of houses with the help of multiple rocket launcher systems. A large building caught fire,” the governor of Kherson Yaroslav Yanusevic had clarified earlier.
“Due to the continuous Russian bombardment, we are evacuating patients from Kherson hospitals,” he noted.
Russia’s strategy of targeting key infrastructure as Ukraine’s winter chill sets in is a “war crime” for Ukraine’s Western allies and has been described as a “crime against humanity” by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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