At least three civilians were killed and three others were injured by Russian shelling in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson and Donetsk, located in the central-eastern, southern and eastern parts of Ukraine, authorities said today.

In the village of Olguifka, on the banks of the Dnieper River, which is under Ukrainian occupation, a 58-year-old woman was killed in an “artillery shelling” that also wounded a 49-year-old man, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry said.

In the Korabelni district of the city of Kherson, a 7-year-old boy was injured by the “throwing of a missile” near a residence, according to the same source.

Further north, Russian artillery fire, according to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry, hit the community of Chervonogrigorifka, near the city of Nikopol, in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

The shots hit two brothers aged 16 and 22. “The younger one succumbed to his injuries, the older one was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, the doctors are fighting for his life,” the ministry points out.

In Donetsk, a 46-year-old man was killed by strikes targeting the Chasif Yar community, Governor Vadim Filachkin said.

Earlier, he announced that almost 200 people, including 21 children, were evacuated from villages near the front because of the fierce fighting.