A Russian drone attack on a bus in the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, killed two people and injured seven others in the early hours of Saturday (2), authorities said.
Most of the victims were public service workers, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin added on Telegram. He published images from the scene that showed a body with traces of blood on the floor.
“These attacks are part of a systemic policy of terror against the civilian population,” Dmytro Lubinets, a Ukrainian human rights defender, said on Telegram.
Kherson, the only regional capital taken by Russian forces in their full-scale 2022 invasion, was recaptured by Ukrainian troops later that year but has increasingly come under attack from Russian forces on the other side of the .
Ukrainian authorities and human rights organizations have accused Moscow troops of deliberate and systematic attacks with small drones on civilians in areas close to the front line, in particular in Kherson.
the target of almost daily Russian attacks over the past two months, was also attacked overnight, regional governor Oleh Kiper said.
A warehouse and neighboring buildings were damaged at a port, he added on Telegram.
The Ukrainian air force said it shot down 142 of 163 long-range drones launched by Russia overnight.
