Russian shelling of residential areas in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson killed at least three people on Sunday, local authorities said.
In an area under Russian control in the neighboring region of Zaporizhia, also in the south of the country, authorities installed by Moscow indicated that four people had been killed by a Ukrainian attack on a railway bridge.
“Residential Areas” Affected
The front in southern Ukraine, where the Russian army had to abandon Kherson in November, has been much quieter recently than in the eastern part of the country, where fierce fighting is taking place, but shelling from both sides has never stopped and the battles. resumed this week in the Zaporizhzhia region.
“Enemy artillery hit residential areas of the city,” the regional administration said on social media.
It added that a hospital, a school, a bus station, a post office, a bank and apartment buildings were hit. These attacks left three dead and six injured, including a nurse, according to the same source.
Moscow accuses Kyiv of killing four people in an attack
The head of the pro-Russian administration installed by Moscow in Zaporizhia, Yevgeny Balitsky, for his part, accused Ukraine of having committed “an attack with multiple Himar rocket launchers against a railway bridge over the Molotchnaya river.”
“Four members of a railway brigade died, five were injured and are receiving medical attention,” he added.
The bridge is in the town of Svetlodinskoye, north of the Russian-controlled city of Melitopol. According to the same source, work was being done on this infrastructure.
Source: BFM TV
