Russian attacks kill elderly man and woman in Kherson, Ukraine says

19/5/2025 19:03

A man and woman in their seventies were killed in separate Russian attacks on the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, police and regional officials said on Monday.



A 75-year-old woman was killed and two people were wounded in shelling late on Sunday of a central area of Kherson, the region's main city, local authorities and police said on the Telegram messaging app.



A 76-year-old man was killed in a drone attack on Monday morning on a residential area of the Kakhovka district of Kherson on the Dnipro River, the police said.



Photographs posted by the police on Telegram showed devastated buildings and vehicles after the attacks, which they said had damaged two apartment buildings, 17 private houses and a factory, among other infrastructure.



Russia, which began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, did not immediately comment on the reports. It carried out its largest drone attack of the war on Sunday.



U.S. President Donald Trump is set to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin later on Monday as the White House steps up efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine.