Russian forces killed eight civilians today in attacks in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region, hitting a supermarket and a train station in the provincial capital as well as nearby villages, officials said.

Three people were killed in an apparent artillery attack as people did their shopping at a supermarket in the city of Peninsulaas announced by the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office.

Local officials said another person was killed when the city’s train station was bombed, three energy workers were killed while repairing damage in a nearby village and another person was killed in an apartment building in another settlement.

Pools of blood and debris lay on the ground outside the supermarket, whose entrance was badly damaged and blocked, according to Reuters reporters at the scene.

The interior ministry said the victims were customers and employees of the supermarket.

“When the enemy cannot achieve anything on the battlefield, they attack peaceful cities“said the spokesman of the Ukrainian army, Serhiy Tserevaty.

Windows at the train station, where three explosions appear to have taken place, were broken. Two people were being carried alive on stretchers.

“We can’t negotiate with Russian killers. They must be brought to justice. Or be neutralized“, said the Minister of the Interior Ihor Klimenko.

Russia did not immediately comment on the incident.

Ukrainian troops recaptured Kherson last November after eight months of occupation by Russian forces, who brought it under their control shortly after they invaded the country 14 months ago.

The area is now under near-constant shelling from Russian forces entrenched on the opposite side of the Dnieper River.