Ukraine says one civilian killed, five wounded by Russian attacks in south
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Ukraine says one civilian killed, five wounded by Russian attacks in south
KYIV (Reuters) - Russian shelling and missile strikes killed an elderly woman and injured five people in the southern Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Odesa on Monday, Ukrainian officials reported.
Missiles damaged an administrative building and equipment in a shipyard in the Black Sea region of Odesa in the morning, local prosecutors said, adding that four workers had been hurt.
"The attack caused a fire, which was quickly extinguished by our rescuers," Odesa regional governor Oleh Kiper said in a Telegram messenger post.
Images published online by the Odesa prosecutors' office showed a blast crater, buildings with shattered windows and two destroyed vehicles.
An 85-year-old woman was killed in heavy overnight shelling of the front-line city of Kherson, Roman Mrochko, head of the city's military administration, said on Telegram.
"In the central district of the city, high-rise buildings and one of the social institutions were hit," Mrochko added.
He said the attack caused a fire and injured a resident, posting a video showing scorched rooms with collapsed walls and ceilings, shattered windows and piles of construction waste.
Russia later carried out a missile strike in the outskirts of Zaporizhzhia, destroying a social infrastructure facility, regional governor Yuriy Malashko said on Telegram.
The attacks followed attempted Russian drone strikes on southern, central, and northern Ukraine. Kyiv's military said air defences destroyed all 12 drones and two missiles launched against the Mykolaiv, Kherson, Kirovohrad, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi and Dnipro regions.
There was no immediate comment on the overnight strikes from Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory in the east and south.
