 bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region. "Again, the expert hype around the left bank in the Kherson region began. There are no reasons for excitement," she said. Kherson regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Sunday that three people had been wounded in Russian attacks on the province on Saturday. Ukrainian military officials said on Saturday evening that Kyiv's forces had made progress in the south, claiming some success near a key village in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and capturing other unspecified territories.Ukraine's General Staff said they had "partial success" around the tactically important Robotyne area in the Zaporizhzhia region, a key Russian strongpoint that Ukraine needs to retake in order to continue pushing south towards Melitopol. "There are liberated territories. The defence forces are working," General Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of Ukraine's southern forces, said of the southern front. Battles in recent weeks have taken place on multiple points along the more than 600-mile front line as Ukraine wages a counteroffensive with Western-supplied weapons and Western-trained troops against Russian forc){kind=link}
The village of Shiroka Balka, on the Dnieper River, lost five people – a husband, wife, little boy, 12, and 23-day-old girl – and another resident when Russian bombs rained down on them earlier today. Two men in a neighbouring village also died
Seven people – including a 23-day-old baby girl – were killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region on Sunday.
Artillery shelling in the village of Shiroka Balka, on the banks of the Dnieper River killed a family – a husband, wife, 12-year-old boy and 23-day-old girl – and another resident. Two men were killed in the neighbouring village of Stanislav, where a woman was also wounded.
The attack on Kherson province followed Ukrainian deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar’s comments on Saturday attempting to quell rumours that Ukrainian forces had landed on the occupied left (east) bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region.
“Again, the expert hype around the left bank in the Kherson region began. There are no reasons for excitement,” she said. Kherson regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Sunday that three people had been wounded in Russian attacks on the province on Saturday.