(Kyiv) Three people died and five were injured in Russian strikes near Kherson in southern Ukraine on Sunday, regional authorities said.
“On Sunday morning, the Russian army fired artillery at the village of Bourgunka,” the administration of the Kherson region said on Telegram.
Bourgounka is located 60 kilometers northeast of Kherson, near the Dnieper River, which acts as a demarcation between the territories controlled by Kyiv and those occupied by the Russian army.
“Three people died at the scene of the tragedy: a father, a mother and an uncle. Four other people were injured: a grandmother, an adult man, a girl […] and a boy,” the regional administration said.
According to this source, “in the same village, another child, an 8-year-old boy, was also injured” during these morning strikes.
Russian fire targeting the Kherson region has remained regular since the withdrawal of Moscow troops from the main city of the same name in mid-November.
The Russian army is particularly targeting the energy infrastructure of this region, already largely damaged by a series of massive strikes that began in the fall after a series of setbacks on the battlefield.
On the Russian side, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced on Sunday on Telegram the death of a young girl, killed during strikes attributed to the Ukrainian army while she was “in the street” in Novaya Tavoljanka, on the border with Ukraine.
The Russian occupation authorities in Donetsk have indicated that nine people were injured in a Ukrainian bombardment on the eponymous city, occupied by pro-Russian separatists since 2014.