28 February 2026

Enemy drones drop explosives on a dormitory and a factory in Kherson

(Consequences of the attack in Kherson region. PHOTO: npu.gov.ua)

In the Kherson region, eight civilians and two police officers were injured by Russian shelling and hit by a mine. Houses, vehicles, and infrastructure were also damaged.

This was reported by the press service of the National Police in Kherson region.

In different settlements, four apartment buildings and 11 private houses, the administrative building of a plant, a dormitory, a critical infrastructure facility, four trolleybuses, two minibuses, and two cars were damaged.

In Mylove, an FPV drone hit a private house, and in Stepanivka, artillery damaged a house. In Velyka Oleksandrivka, an unidentified device exploded during the inspection of a house, injuring two policemen (40 and 43 years old) with contusions and shrapnel wounds.

In the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson, a drone dropped explosives on a dormitory, injuring an 80-year-old woman and a 72-year-old man. Later, another FPV drone injured a 30-year-old man, and a trolleybus and a minibus were damaged on the territory of a transportation company.

Artillery shelling hit residential areas of the Central, Dniprovsky and Korabelny districts: apartment buildings, private houses and cars were damaged.

A 37-year-old man was injured in Tsentralnyi district, three people sustained mine-blast wounds and contusions in Bilozerka and Chervonyi Mayak, one of them suffered a broken humerus. A 48-year-old resident of Kherson was wounded by a piece of shrapnel during an artillery shell ing in the city center.

The day before, two people were killed and nine others wounded in Kherson region as a result of shelling by Russian troops. Thirty objects were damaged: two apartment buildings, 24 private houses, critical infrastructure facilities and two cars.

In the Central district, artillery shelling damaged an apartment building, and in the afternoon, a drone strike hit another apartment building in the Pivdennyi district.

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