Three killed, 10 wounded when Russian forces attacked boat carrying evacuees from flooded area, governor says
Also on Sunday, three people were killed and 10 were wounded when Russian forces attacked a boat carrying evacuees from flooded occupied territory to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kherson, the regional governor said.
In a statement on Telegram messenger, he said a 74-year-old man used his body to shield a woman from Russian fire and was hit in the back and died.The incident was first reported by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak who said the boat had been carrying evacuees from flooded areas of occupied territory to the city of Kherson.
He also brushed off claims from Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday that Ukraine was already suffering “significant losses” during its counteroffensive. Russia said its military repelled numerous Ukrainian attacks on its positions in the partly occupied Zaporizhzhia region, and struck enemy command posts and ammunition stores and shot down a fighter jet from Kyiv’s air force in the Kherson province.
Moscow-installed officials on the occupied eastern bank of the Dnipro said that eight people had been killed and almost 7,000 evacuated. Kyiv has accused Russia of bungling the emergency effort in areas it controls and of only evacuating people with Russian passports.
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