Three people died Sunday and 10 were injured when Russian forces attacked a boat carrying residents evacuated from the area flooded by the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine to the city of Kherson.
“Three civilians were killed, another 10 were injured, including two law enforcement officers,” said the governor of the Kherson region Alexander Prokudin. Reuters.
The governor said in a Telegram post that a 74-year-old man protected a woman from an attack with his own body, dying from a blow to the back.
The attack was first reported by the head of the administration of President Vladimir Zelensky, Andriy Yermak, who reported via Telegram that “the Russian army attacked a boat with civilians evacuated from the left bank of the Kherson region.”
Russia denies that it has targeted civilians.
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