Russian Shelling Injures 12 in Kherson and Beryslav Districts

Russian troops shelled civilian infrastructure in Kherson and Beryslav districts, injuring 12 people, including three police officers.

According to the press service of the regional police, in one of the settlements of the Bilozerska community, Russian troops attacked a checkpoint with a drone, resulting in three police officers (aged 27 to 36) being injured. In addition, over the previous days, six people from the Dniprovsky district of Kherson and Bilozerka sought medical care for deteriorating health, and were diagnosed with mine-blast trauma, contusions and wounds; one 72-year-old woman in the Central district sustained blast trauma and a shrapnel chest wound from explosives dropped from a drone.

In the morning, a 63-year-old man came under mortar fire in the Dniprovsky district of Kherson, sustaining a mine-blast trauma and shrapnel wound to his thigh. The coastal part of the city's central district was shelled with artillery, damaging a high-rise building. In the afternoon, during a drone attack on Stanislav, a 50-year-old man and a 56-year-old woman sustained explosive injuries and contusions, and a private house and a truck were damaged.

Also in Vesele, a 55-year-old employee of Novokakhovka MVA sustained concussion, burns to her hand and carbon monoxide poisoning during a drone attack. Some drones caused damage to a private house in Zolota Balka and a car in Komyshany, artillery fire in Chervonyi Mayak damaged a garage, and an administrative building and a bus in Zymivnyk. Three private houses were damaged in Komyshany and Bilozerka. Prydniprovske was attacked by FPV drones, but there were no casualties, and FPV drones also hit a private house in Tektylne and two residential buildings in Havrylivka.

Over the day, the police processed 380 statements and reports of criminal offenses, and opened 13 proceedings under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Андрій Колісніченко