Five civilians were killed in attacks by Russia on Ukraine's Kherson region, said the officials on Sunday while one person was killed in the eastern town of Horlivka, said Russian-installed officials, reported Reuters.
According to the Ukrainian officials, the deaths in Kherson occurred due to incessant Russian shelling of the city and the region over the preceding 24 hours.
Three people were killed in shelling of an apartment building and a private home in Kherson city, as per the Reuters report. A woman was killed in a drone attack in a small town south of Kherson while a second woman was killed when a town further was attacked.
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The attacks affected gas and water supply in the region and a hospital also took the hit, Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, head of the press office of Kherson's regional military administration, told the Ukrainian public broadcaster.
"The windows were broken, the building was damaged," Tolokonnikov said.
Russian forces abandoned the city of Kherson, the administrative centre of the Kherson region on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine, and the western bank of the River over a year ago but have since subjected many areas there to constant shelling from their positions on the eastern bank.
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Meanwhile, some 600 kilometres northeast of Kherson, Ukraine's shelling on the town of Horlivka, in areas of Ukraine's Donetsk region under Russian control, destroyed a shopping centre and several other buildings, said a Russian-installed official, according to the report.
One woman was killed in the attack while six civilians were wounded, the Russian-installed mayor of Horlivka, Ivan Prikhodko, said on the Telegram messaging app, as per the Reuters report.