Shelling kills two fishermen in south Ukraine

By AFP
December 29, 2023

KYIV, Ukraine: Shelling killed two civilians and wounded others in a village on the banks of the frontline Dnipro river in southern Ukraine on Thursday, local authorities said.

“Russian armed forces carried out artillery shelling of the village of Bilenke of Zaporizhzhia Region,” Ukraine´s general prosecutor said.

Ukrainian policemen stop cars to control people as they look for suspicious men, in  Kyiv on February 27, 2022. — AFP
Ukrainian policemen stop cars to control people as they look for suspicious men, in  Kyiv on February 27, 2022. — AFP 

“Two fishermen died” in the attack, the prosecutor said, also reporting five injured.

The village of Bilenke is on the shores of the Dnipro river, the frontline between Russian and Ukrainian forces for over a year.

Meanwhile in the northern Kharkiv region Russian forces shelled Vovchansk, killing a 66-year-old woman and wounding a 63-year old.

Three women aged between 58 and 76 were also wounded in an air strike on the village of Glushkivka, also in the Kharkiv region, police said.