A car following the shelling of the village of Horlivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, 20 January 2025. Photo: Telegram / t.me/Prikhodko1970
Ukrainian shelling of a Russian-occupied village in Ukraine’s southeastern Kherson region on Monday morning left two people dead and injured another 25, according to Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed regional governor.
Claiming that Ukraine had used cluster munitions in the attack, proving “the barbarity of the Kiev regime”, Saldo posted a photo of one piece of ordnance he said had landed by a village school near the town of Hola Prystan, which has been occupied by Russian forces since the early days of the invasion.
Russia declared the formal annexation of the Kherson region on 30 September 2022, despite the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) liberating the regional capital Kherson just over a month later. Since then, both Russian-occupied and Ukrainian-controlled areas of the region have come under repeated shelling.
Another attack on Horlivka, a town in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, injured at least 10 people on Monday, Russia-installed mayor of Horlivka Ivan Prikhodko said.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have yet to make any comment on either of the reported attacks.
Elsewhere, Russian shelling of villages in eastern Ukraine continued, according to Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin, who added that one person had been killed and another injured in fighting on Sunday in Pokrovsk, a town near the frontline where heavy fighting continues.
Filashkin said that 74 people, including 13 children, had been evacuated from frontline towns in the Donetsk region over the past day.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Ukraine had shot down 33 Russian missiles and 311 attack drones last week alone, while another 136 drones had failed to reach their targets. He also reiterated his previous appeals to Kyiv’s allies to supply the country with more long-range defence systems “to guarantee that Russia’s war will be stopped”.
