Two killed and eight injured in Russian attacks on Kherson Oblast – video

Russian forces attacked the Korabelnyi district of Kherson as well as the villages of Osokorivka and Chereshenky in Kherson Oblast on 13 April, killing an 89-year-old woman and a man and injuring eight other people.

Source: Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of Kherson Oblast Military Administration; Kherson Oblast Military Administration

Quote from Prokudin: "The Russians attacked an elderly woman with an FPV drone in the village of Osokorivka in the Novovorontsovka hromada.

At about 11:20, as a result of the strike by an enemy drone, the 89-year-old local woman sustained fatal injuries." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Details: At around 16:40, a Russian drone struck a parked car in the Korabelnyi district of Kherson. The vehicle caught fire, and firefighters extinguished the blaze.

As a result of the attack, three women aged 76, 47 and 84 were injured. They were diagnosed with shrapnel wounds, concussions and traumatic brain injuries. Medics also treated a 42-year-old man with arm injuries and concussion.

Later, a 47-year-old man with blast injuries and a head wound, as well as a 68-year-old man with concussion and an acute stress reaction, were taken to hospital.

In addition, a Russian drone struck a civilian vehicle in the village of Chereshenky in the Bilozerska hromada at about 18:00. Two men aged 26 and 32 were injured in the attack; they were taken to hospital with blast injuries.

Update: At 19:52, Prokudin reported that a man was killed in the Russian drone strike on a civilian vehicle in the village of Chereshenky.

Relevant services are currently working to establish the identity of the man.

Background: On the night of 12-13 April, two people were injured in a Russian attack on Komyshany in Kherson Oblast.

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