Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday the city had been attacked 16 times in 24 hours. At least one shell struck a Red Cross aid station, killing a paramedic, Zelensky said.
That barrage came after two Ukrainians were killed Wednesday in the city center, when a nearby government building was targeted, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Zelensky’s office.
The attacks on Kherson — a city surrendered by the Russians early last month as they sought to pull back across natural fortification of the nearby Dnipro River — mimic the Russian strategy throughout Ukraine. Smoke and debris rises as the Kherson Regional State Administration building is hit by Russian shelling.Ukrainian officials accuse Russian forces of intentionally targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure in an effort to break Kyiv’s will to fight — a sentiment echoed by Russian lawmaker Andrey Gurulev, who declared on state-run TV in October heA Ukrainian war crime prosecutor inspects a residential building damaged by a Russian military strike in Kherson.
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