Russian shelling in Kherson and Kharkiv kills four

Russian bombardments on Kherson, in southern Ukraine, killed at least three people on Sunday and injured six, denounced President Volodymyr Zelensky, while a Russian strike the same day in Kharkiv (east) killed one person , according to the governor of the region.

“The Russian army brutally shelled Kherson all day… A hospital, a post office, a bus station were damaged. Two nurses were injured in the hospital. A total of six injured and three dead are reported “, declared the Ukrainian president in his daily video message, broadcast in the evening.

The regional administration had reported earlier three dead and six injured including a nurse. In Kharkiv, in the east of the country, the governor of the military administration of the region reported that a Russian strike on Sunday hit “a four-storey residential building”.

“Three victims received minor injuries. Unfortunately, an elderly woman died. (…) The building was partially destroyed. The inhabitants were evacuated. described Oleg Synegoubov on Telegram overnight from Sunday to Monday.

Ukrainian strike kills four in Zapororizhya, Russian authorities say

In an area under Russian control in the neighboring region of Zapororijjia, in the south of the country, the authorities installed by Moscow indicated that four people had been killed by a Ukrainian strike on a railway bridge. The front in southern Ukraine, where the Russian army had to abandon Kherson in November, has recently been much calmer than that in the eastern part of the country, where fierce fighting is taking place, but the shelling from both sides Others never stopped and fighting resumed this week in the Zaporizhia region.

The head of the pro-Russian administration installed by Moscow in Zaporizhia, Yevgeny Balitsky, for his part accused Ukraine of having committed “a strike with Himar multiple rocket launchers against a railway bridge spanning the Molotchnaya river” .

“Four members of a railway brigade were killed, five were injured and are being treated medically,” he added. The bridge is in the villa of Svetlodinskoye, north of the city of Melitopol controlled by Russian forces. According to the same source, work was underway on this infrastructure.