Three killed in Russian attack on Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine: Russian attacks on the southern city of Kherson killed three civilians on Monday, Ukrainian officials said.

Russia fired rockets and artillery shells at Kherson´s city centre on Monday afternoon, Kherson´s governor Oleksandr Prokudin said in a statement. The strikes killed a 62-year-old woman and a 45-year-old man, he said, and wounded ten others.

A local hospital, 15 houses and eight vehicles were also damaged in the attacks. Ukrainian troops retook Kherson from Russian forces a year ago in the last major territorial change in the 21-month conflict. The city, on the western bank of the Dnipro river, has been subject to daily shelling attacks from Russian forces on the other side of the vast waterway.