Warmonger Putin pounds Ukraine’s Kherson province with missile blitz which kills two people and wounds three others as Russia’s barbaric invasion rumbles into its 20th month
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Russian air strikes have killed two people and wounded three others in Ukraine’s Kherson province – as Putin’s barbaric onslaught has entered its 20th month.
Russian forces struck the city of Beryslav, destroying an unspecified number of private houses.
A woman was killed and three people were wounded, including a police officer, according to the region’s governor Oleksandr Prokudin.
Another air strike also killed a 67-year-old man in the village of Lvove, Mr Prokudin said without specifying the type of weapons used in the attack.
The communities hit are both located in the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Kherson region, where the Dnieper River has marked a battle line since November 2022, when Russian forces retreated across it, boosting the invaded country’s morale.
Russian air strikes have killed two people and wounded three others in Ukraine ‘s Kherson province. Pictured is a destroyed building in Beryslav
A woman has been killed in the strike while three people were wounded, including a police officer. Pictured is the aftermath in Beryslav
Kherson’s governor told of how Russian forces struck the city of Beryslav earlier today, destroying an unspecified number of private houses
The Russians regrouped on the river’s eastern bank and regularly shell cities and villages across the river, including the city of Kherson, the regional capital that was occupied early on in the war but retaken by Ukrainian forces more than 10 months ago.
Meanwhile in Russia, a Ukrainian drone hit an administrative building in the city of Kursk and ‘insignificantly damaged’ the roof, regional governor Roman Starovoit reported. He did not report any casualties or say what the building housed.
Unconfirmed media reports both in Russia and Ukraine said it was the offices of the Kursk branch of Russia’s main security agency, the Federal Security Service, also known as the FSB.
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The Kursk region of Russia borders Ukraine and is also a frequent target of attacks. The drone strike today took place as residents commemorated the anniversary of the regional capital’s founding.
There was no immediate comment from the Ukrainian authorities, who usually do not acknowledge responsibility for attacks on Russian territory.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was travelling home from North America, where he addressed the UN General Assembly and paid his first war-time visit to Canada.
In a social media statement on Saturday, Mr Zelensky said he stopped in Poland on his way back to Ukraine to give state awards to two Polish volunteers.
Mr Zelensky apparently did not meet with any Polish officials, but in a post on X, formerly Twitter, he thanked Poland for ‘its invaluable support and solidarity that helps defend freedom of our entire Europe’.
Poland has taken in large numbers of Ukrainian refugees and been a fierce supporter of neighbouring Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin sent troops into the country on February 24, 2022.
However, a trade dispute has recently tested the relationship between Kyiv and Warsaw.
The Ukrainian government this month filed a complaint with the World Trade Organisation against Poland, Hungary and Slovakia for banning imports of Ukrainian farm products, which are important for the war-weary country’s battered economy.
The three European Union member nations bristled at the move. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki responded by saying his country was ‘no longer transferring any weapons to Ukraine because we are now arming ourselves with the most modern weapons’.
His remarks left many wondering if the Western resolve to support Ukraine in the war with Russia is waning.
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