26 June 2025

Guided aerial bombs and drones killed and injured people in several districts of Kherson region

(PHOTO: Kherson Regional State Administration)

Over the course of the day, Russians shelled at least 43 settlements in Kherson region. The attacks killed three people, injured 13 others, and destroyed housing, infrastructure and civilian facilities.

This was reported by the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin.

During the day from 06:00 on June 25 to 06:00 on June 26, Kherson region again came under massive attacks by Russian troops. At least 43 settlements, including Dariivka, Stanislav, Oleksandrivka, Antonivka, Beryslav, and Novovorontsovka, came under fire from drones, artillery, and aircraft.

The enemy targeted residential areas and infrastructure. The attacks damaged 2 high-rise buildings, 16 private houses, a gas pipeline, a cell tower, warehouses, an outbuilding, a gas station and several cars.

Three people were killed and thirteen others were injured as a result of the Russian strikes.

From June 24 to 25, the occupiers attacked 37 settlements in Kherson region using drones, artillery and aircraft. Seven multi-story buildings, 22 private houses, a mobile tower, gas pipelines, cars and equipment were damaged. The shelling killed one person and injured eight others.

On the morning of June 25, Russian troops shelled Dariivka with artillery, wounding two women aged 41 and 52, as well as a 62-year-old victim who was hospitalized with forearm injuries.

In Antonivka, a 38-year-old man was hit by a hostile drone, injuring his leg and chest. In Kherson, at around 15:00, Russians attacked another man with a drone - a 36-year-old Kherson resident sustained shrapnel wounds to his abdomen and legs.

In Beryslav district, two 47-year-old men hit a mine while riding a motorcycle between the villages of Bilohirka and Bruskinske. Around 18:30, a 74-year-old man was injured in a drone attack in Dniprovsky district, suffering from concussion, blast trauma and a foot injury.

Another resident of Kherson, 56 years old, was hit by a Russian UAV. In the village of Chervonyi Mayak, the Russian occupiers struck a 55-year-old local resident with an FPV drone. As a result of the attack, the man sustained fatal injuries. An agricultural enterprise in Sofiyivka also came under enemy fire, killing a 38-year-old worker.

Around 04:30, the Korabelny district of Kherson came under artillery fire. A shell hit a residential building with a 71-year-old woman inside. She sustained contusion, blast injury and a closed head injury.

Over 33,000 private houses and 1,500 multi-storey buildings have been destroyed by shelling in the right bank of Kherson region.

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