Russia, indiscriminate bombing of Kherson on Christmas Eve… 7 dead

President Zelensky publishes Kherson tragedy on social media

(Rome = Yonhap News) Correspondent Shin Chang-yong = At ​​least seven people were killed and 58 injured after Russia opened an indiscriminate bombing raid on the Ukrainian city of Kherson on Christmas Eve, the Associated Press and AFP reported.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who returned from a visit to Washington, DC, posted photos of burning cars, dead bodies on the streets and destroyed buildings in Kherson on his social media account that day, saying, “This is what real life in Kherson seems,” he said.

After calling it “an act of (Russian) terrorism in the heart of the city on Christmas Eve,” Zelensky added, “The whole world must clearly see what an absolute evil we are fighting against.”

Kirilo Tymoshenko, deputy head of Ukraine’s president’s office, said Russia’s shelling of Kherson killed seven people and wounded 58, including 16 in serious condition.

Kherson authorities said Russian forces had shelled Kherson 74 times the day before, killing five and wounding 17 others.

Kherson is a strategic point connecting the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, which was forcibly annexed by Russia in 2014, and the eastern regions of Donbass (Donetsk and Luhansk regions) occupied by land by pro-Russian separatist forces.

Ukraine retook Kherson, a strategic southern city lost to Russia at the start of the war, in about eight months last month.

Russia, which has withdrawn, bombs key infrastructure in Kherson every day, as if in retaliation.

Today is exactly 10 months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and it’s Christmas Eve, but Russia hasn’t stopped its attacks in Kherson.

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