three people were killed and five others were injured today by Russian shelling near Kherson, in southern Ukraine, according to local authorities.

“Sunday morning the Russian artillery bombarded the village of Burgunka,” the district administration said via the Telegram application.

THE Burgunka it is 60 kilometers northeast of Kherson and is close to the Dnieper River, the “border” between territories controlled by Kiev and those occupied by the Russian military.

“Three people were killed on the spot: a father, a mother, an uncle. Four others were injured: a grandmother, an elderly man, a girl (…) and a boy,” the announcement added.

According to the same source, he was also injured in the same village another child, an 8-year-old boy.

The Russian military often strikes against its territory Peninsula after the withdrawal of the Russian soldiers from the homonymous city, in mid-November.

The main goal is the energy infrastructureswhich have been heavily damaged by the massive strikes.

From the Russian sidethe governor of the Belgorod region, o Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced today that a young girl was killed by Ukrainian forces while she was “on the road” in the village of Novaya Tavolyanka, on the border with Ukraine.

Its Russian occupation authorities Donetsk they also reported that nine people were wounded by Ukrainian shelling in the city of the same name, which pro-Russian separatists have controlled since 2014.