Three killed in Russian attacks in southern Ukraine

KYIV: At the least three folks had been killed in Russian assaults in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, together with two who died after a trolleybus firm got here beneath hearth within the metropolis of Kherson, regional officers mentioned.
Oleksandr Prokudin, the governor of the Kherson area, mentioned two males aged 55 and 43 had been killed by “focused hearth” on the Kherson trolleybus firm in what he described as “one other Russian terrorist assault”.
A number of different folks had been injured, he mentioned in a put up on the Telegram messaging app.
Prokudin posted images from the scene on-line, with one exhibiting what seemed to be a lifeless man within the foreground and two trolleybuses within the background. The prosecutor’s workplace mentioned the assault came about round 10.20am Kyiv time (0720 GMT) and that it had launched an investigation.
Yuriy Malashko, the governor of the Zaporizhzhia area, wrote on Telegram {that a} 35-year-old man had been killed in a Russian artillery barrage on the village of Mala Tokmachka and that 4 folks had been wounded elsewhere within the area.
Russia, which started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, denies focusing on civilians.
Russian forces have continued shelling Kherson from positions they maintain within the wider Kherson area regardless of flooding attributable to the destruction of the Khakovka dam, which lies upstream from town on the Dnipro River.
Kyiv has reported making advances in southern Ukraine in a counterattack towards the Russian forces, and each side have reported heavy combating in components of the south.