Kherson Suffers Mortar and Artillery Attacks

Ukraine’s recently liberated southern city of Kherson has suffered intense mortar and artillery attacks from Russian forces across the Dnipro river.

The shelling hit the maternity wing of a hospital, though no one was hurt, according to Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Zelenskyy’s deputy chief of staff. Staff and “patients were moved to a shelter,” he said in a post on Telegram.

Russia has “shelled more than 25 settlements” around Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said. The Kherson region, at the mouth of the Dnipro, serves as a gateway to Russian-annexed Crimea.

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