Deaths and destruction: Russians attacked more than 40 settlements in Kherson region

Over the past day, Russian occupation forces in the Kherson region damaged housing, equipment and killed civilians.

According to the press service of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, more than 40 settlements of the Kherson region came under shelling and air strikes by Russian troops, including: Bilozerka, Novokaira, Tyahynka, Chervonyi Mayak, Stanislav, Shyroka Balka, Beryslav, Zelenivka, Novodmitrivka, Tomyna Balka, Velytenske, Kizomys, Novoberislav, Ukrainka, Mykilske, Antonivka, Prydniprovske, Molodizhne, Sadove, Mylove, Novoraysk, Monastyrske, Burgunka, Vesele, Dudchany, Zmiivka, Ivanivka, Kachkarivka, Komyshany, Lvov, Mykolaivka, Mykhailivka, Novotyanka, Odradokamyanka, Olgivka, Osokorivka, Sofiyivka, Tokarivka, and the city of Kherson.

The occupants struck at residential areas and social infrastructure facilities. The shelling damaged a multi-storey building, 10 private houses, a garage, a warehouse and agricultural machinery.

According to the JFO, two people were killed and two others were injured as a result of Russian aggression.

According to the regional prosecutor's office, in Kherson, the Russian occupiers dropped explosives from a drone on a tractor. As a result, the tractor driver was killed. He was 44 years old.

Under the procedural guidance of the prosecutor's office, a pre-trial investigation was launched into a war crime that caused the death of a person (Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

This is not the first time that Russian drone operators have dropped explosives on people who do not look or even resemble military personnel.

For example, on January 24, Russian occupants attacked Antonivka, Kherson region, with a drone, injuring a man and a woman. They both suffered mine-blast injuries because explosives were dropped on them from a drone.

Ірина Глухова