Russia bombs regions of Ukraine and leaves at least one dead, officials say

Russia bombed the Ukrainian regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson overnight on Saturday (23), killing at least one person and wounding three, heads of the regional military administration said.

The Kherson region, on Ukraine’s southern border, was hit by 598 projectiles in the last 24 hours, said the head of the region’s military administration, Oleksandr Prokudin.

One person was killed and three others were injured in the attack, according to Prokudin.

Russia used mortars, artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and aircraft in the attack that also hit residential areas, medical and educational facilities in the Kherson region and a prison in the area around the city. .

Dnipropetrovsk suffered attacks from unmanned aerial vehicles and heavy artillery, explained Serhii Lysak, head of the region’s military administration.

The region’s capital, Dnipro, was hit by Iranian-made Shahed drones, damaging a “critical infrastructure facility,” Lysak cited. The attack also damaged gas stations and a traffic light in the Novooleksandrivka neighborhood, Lysak added.

Explosives launched by a drone and heavy artillery shelling hit other cities in the region, destroying ten homes and damaging gas pipelines, according to Lysak.

No injuries or deaths were reported in the attack on the Dnipropetrovsk region, Lysak concluded.

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Source: CNN Brasil

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