Two people died in a Ukrainian drone attack on a part of the Kherson region, in southern Ukraine, occupied by Russia, Governor Vladimir Saldo said via his Telegram channel this Saturday (18).
Both victims lived in a temporary accommodation center for displaced people, Saldo said.
Understand the war in Ukraine
Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and currently holds about a fifth of the neighboring country’s territory.
Still in 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin decreed the annexation of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
The Russians are slowly advancing in the east and Moscow shows no signs of abandoning its main war objectives.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump, President of the United States, is pushing for a peace agreement.
Ukraine has carried out increasingly bold attacks inside Russia and says the operations are aimed at destroying essential Russian military infrastructure.
Putin’s government, in turn, has intensified air strikes, including drone offensives.
Both sides deny targeting civilians, but thousands have died in the conflict, the vast majority of them Ukrainians.
Thousands of soldiers are also believed to have died on the front line, but neither side releases military casualty figures.
The United States says 1.2 million people were injured or killed in the war.
