Six people, including a baby, were killed today in the Kherson region by a Russian artillery attack, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on Telegram.
"The Russians killed six people in the Kherson region," the minister wrote. Three adults and one infant died in Shyroka Balka village, including a couple and their two children, a 23-day-old infant and a 12-year-old boy. Additionally, two men were killed in Stanislaviv, where a woman was also injured.
At least 500 children have been killed by Russian forces since the start of the war and nearly 1,100 injured, the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office said.
More than 1,597 children in Ukraine have suffered from large-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation. As of the morning of August 13, 2023, according to official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 500 children have been killed and more than 1,097 have been injured. Most of the children were affected in the Donetsk region, the statement said.
During the night, however, 17 Ukrainian drones attacked a logistics base of Russian troops near Yevpatoriya in occupied Crimea, as a result of which, according to preliminary information, "dozens of occupants" were killed or injured, writes today the Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper, citing sources of military counterintelligence.
According to sources, the drones hit tents, vehicle parks and tankers, causing serious damage.
Kiev seems to be focusing its offensive efforts on Crimea - the peninsula annexed to the Russian Federation in 2014 - attacking military bases but also the bridge over the Koch Strait, which has become the symbol of the Russian occupation of the region.
(Unioneonline/L)
