Ukraine’s Interior Ministry: shopping centre in Kherson suffers strike, 3 killed, 5 injured

The Epicentre mall in Ukraine’s Kherson has suffered a Russian strike that killed three people and injured five, Ukraine’s Interior Ministry reports.

The strike was executed at around 11 a.m. today, says Ihor Klymenko, the Interior Minister. Epicentre was the only big store working in the city today.

“Three dead, five injured so far. Those were shoppers and the shop’s personnel,” Klymenko says.

Tokarivka in the Kherson region was shelled today: one person was killed by the Russian military. According to local authorities, a 47-year-old man suffered lethal injuries in the yard of his own house.

“Peaceful settlements of the Kherson region were shelled 106 times. They used artillery shells, MLRS, mortars, tanks, drones and aviation. Russians attacked Kherson 9 times, firing 33 shells,” the Kherson regional administration stated.

Two guided air bombs were dropped by Russia in the Kherson region near the locality of Veletenske. Three people were killed and five were injured.

In recent days, the intensity of Russian shelling has increased. The Russian military launched a massive missile attack on Pavlograd earlier, which injured 34 people. Among the victims were five children.

The Kherson and Dnipro regions also suffered shelling; two people were killed. As a result of the strike, six high-rise buildings and six private houses were damaged, as well as outbuildings, two gas pipelines, and a power line.