KYIV – Russian shelling killed two people on Thursday in the centre of the recently liberated city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, Ukrainian officials said.
Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the president’s office, said on the Telegram messaging app that the two were killed about 100 meters from the regional administration building, which was hit in shelling on Wednesday.
Regional governor Yaroslav Yanushevich said the shelling had knocked out electricity in the city.
“Kherson is completely without power because of enemy shelling,” he wrote on Telegram. “At the first opportunity, the power industry will begin to restore the power grids.”
Ukraine recaptured Kherson on Nov. 11, but Russian forces have been shelling the city from the opposite side of the Dnipro River since leaving the city and withdrawing from the western bank of the river.
In Geneva, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Thursday that further strikes on Ukraine’s infrastructure could lead to a serious deterioration of the humanitarian situation and spark further displacement.
In a speech to the Human Rights Council following a trip to Ukraine, Turk said that Russian strikes were exposing millions of people to “extreme hardship.”
“Additional strikes could lead to a further serious deterioration in the humanitarian situation and spark more displacement,” he said.
