The pro-Russian administration in Kherson accused Ukrainian troops of killing four people and wounding ten in a shelling on the Antonovsky Bridge in this Russian-annexed territory of eastern Ukraine.
“As a result of the terrorist bombings of the army of [o Presidente ucraniano Volodymyr] Zelensky in Kherson, three people were killed, including children, and ten civilians were injured,” Kherson Governor Vladimir Rogov initially announced on the Telegram platform.
A few hours later, Kherson deputy governor Kiril Stremusov said the total death toll had risen to four, but denied that any children had been killed in the attack.
Also on Telegram, Stremusov added that none of the injured were in danger.
The Russian news agency TASS reported that Ukraine launched 12 missiles, 11 of which were shot down by Russian air defense. The attack reportedly also hit 12 vehicles in the vicinity of the bridge.
The Antonovsky Bridge is one of the main supply routes for Russian forces in southern Ukraine, which is why the Ukrainian military would be interested in attacking the infrastructure, as it did with the Kerch Bridge in Crimea.
This is not the first time that the Ukrainian army has attacked the bridge: on July 19, Russian troops announced that the structure had been seriously damaged after an attack from Ukraine.
Some 15,000 people have already been evacuated from Ukraine’s Kherson region, on the left bank of the Dnieper River, Stremusov said on Thursday.
On October 13, the acting governor of the Kherson region appointed by Moscow, Vladimir Rogov, asked the civilian population of that part of the territory, on the right bank of the Dnieper, to move to the other bank, before the advance ukrainian troops.
In total, the pro-Russian authorities intend to evacuate between 50,000 and 60,000 inhabitants within six days.
In addition, they have already installed the power structures of the civil and military administration outside the regional capital, also on the other side of the river.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine has already caused the flight of more than 13 million people -more than six million internally displaced persons and more than 7.7 million to European countries-, according to the latest data from the UN, which places this refugee crisis as the worst in Europe since the Second World War (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion was condemned by the international community at large, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war, which today entered its day 239, 6,306 civilian deaths and 9,602 wounded, stressing that these figures are well below the real ones.
Source: TSF
