At least three killed by Russian shelling of Kherson, attack repelled in Donetsk region, Ukraine says
- The strikes on Kherson also injured at least nine people and damaged a hospital, a school and other buildings
- Kyiv’s forces say they repelled attacks in Blahodatne and other settlements in Donetsk, while Russia’s Wagner group claimed it had taken control of the village
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Three people were killed by Russian strikes on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Sunday that damaged a hospital and a school, the regional administration said.
“Today’s Russian shelling injured nine people: three people died (two men and one woman), six were injured,” the administration wrote on the Telegram app.
“As a result of enemy shelling, a number of civil infrastructure objects were damaged: the Kherson Regional Clinical Hospital, a school, a bus station, a post office, a bank, and residential buildings,” it wrote in an earlier post.
Kherson was occupied by Russian troops from the early days of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine until its recapture by Kyiv’s forces in November.
Since its liberation, the city has regularly been shelled from Russian positions across the Dnipro river.
Ukraine’s military said on Sunday its forces repelled an attack near Blahodatne in the eastern Donetsk region after Russia’s Wagner mercenary group claimed it took control of the village.
Kyiv’s forces “repelled attacks near … Blahodatne” and 13 other settlements in the Donetsk region, the Ukrainian General Staff said in its daily report.
Earlier, Russia’s private military group Wagner said its units had taken control of the village.
“Units of Wagner PMC have taken Blahodatne. Blahodatne is under our control,” Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said as quoted by his press service.
Ex-Wagner fighter says he saw comrades shot for fleeing Ukraine front lineThere was no immediate confirmation from Russia’s defence ministry.
Moscow has made capturing the eastern Donetsk region, which it has already declared a part of Russia, its primary goal in Ukraine.
Kyiv recently said that Russian troops had stepped up their attacks in the east, particularly on the towns of Vugledar and Bakhmut.
Earlier this month, Russia said it wrested control of Soledar, a salt-mining town near Bakhmut, Moscow’s first claim of victory after months of battlefield setbacks.
Blahodatne is located to the North of Bakhmut.
Russian forces have been seeking to seize Bakhmut for months in some of the heaviest fighting since Russia invaded in February last year.
Separately, five civilians were killed in attacks on the Donetsk region over the past day, local governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said Sunday, including one person in Bakhmut.
