KYIV: A dozen people were wounded, including a 27-year-old woman and her 9-month-old baby, in a Russian attack on the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, its governor said on Sunday.
"The Kherson region experienced another terrible night," Governor Oleksandr Prokudin wrote on Telegram.
The woman and the infant were hospitalised with moderate wounds, he said, adding that a 33-year-old Red Cross medic was also wounded.
Several houses and gas pipelines were damaged in the attack.
Over the past 24 hours, Russian forces carried out 59 attacks on Kherson, the region's administration said, including 19 instances of shelling of Kherson city, the region's administrative centre.
There was no immediate comment from Russia to verify the attacks.
Recently, Russia carried out new drone attacks on Ukraine overnight and killed two people in shelling of the southern city of Kherson, Ukrainian officials said.
The Ukrainian military said air defences had shot down 24 of the 29 drones launched in attacks on the southern regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv, and on the central region of Kirovohrad.
It said Russia had continued its strikes on Ukraine's south, home to Ukrainian Black Sea and river ports, but gave few details of the latest wave of attacks that Kyiv says have focused on port and grain infrastructure.
"The enemy continues its attempts to destroy the port and other infrastructure of the south, is terrorising the central regions as well," Ukraine's southern military command said.
Nine of the drones that were destroyed were shot down over the Kirovohrad region, regional governor Andriy Raikovych said.
Russia has frequently carried out air strikes since the start of its full-scale attack in February 2022, and Ukraine has launched a counteroffensive in the south and east that it says is gradually making progress.
Although Moscow denies deliberately targeting civilians, many have been killed in attacks that have hit residential areas as well as energy, defence, port, grain and other facilities.
Russia has frequently carried out air strikes and shelling on Ukraine since the start of its full-scale war in February 2022. Ukraine says its counteroffensive in the south and east is gradually making progress.
Both sides deny targeting civilians, but thousands of civilians in Ukraine have been killed in attacks that have hit residential areas as well as energy, defence, port, grain and other facilities. — Reuters
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