Three killed by Ukrainian artillery strike on Russian city – governor (PHOTO)
A Ukrainian artillery strike on the city of Novaya Kakhovka in Russia’s Kherson Region has left three civilians dead, including a local administration employee, and several others injured, Governor Vladimir Saldo reported on Tuesday.
The attack took place earlier in the day and targeted civilian infrastructure, hitting a grocery store and a multifunctional public service center, Saldo wrote on Telegram, denouncing the strike as “yet another war crime by the Kiev regime.”
“They are targeting civilians, those who simply live and work. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are murderers who stop at nothing,” the governor said, noting that the attack comes amid Kiev’s “loud declarations of ‘readiness for peace.’”
Saldo added that emergency services are working at the scene of the attack and that the families of the victims and the injured will receive full assistance.
Tuesday’s strike is the latest attack by Ukrainian armed forces on civilian infrastructure in Russian cities. Just several days prior, two civilians, including a six-year-old child, were killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on a village near the city of Mariupol in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic. A seven-year-old boy was also injured in the strike that destroyed three residential buildings.
As many as 45 people, including three minors, were also killed in Ukrainian strikes in Russia over the holiday season from January 1 to 11.
Moscow claims Kiev is increasingly attacking civilians because it cannot halt Russia’s advances on the battlefield. In response to the attacks, the Russian military has conducted large-scale strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, causing severe power shortages, grid deterioration, and rolling blackouts in several major Ukrainian cities, including Kiev.
