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Authorities: Russian shelling of Kherson kills woman

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Authorities: Russian shelling of Kherson kills woman
A sign ‘Kherson’ stands at the entrance to the city on Oct. 3, 2023. (Yurii Stefanyak/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Russian forces struck Kherson in southern Ukraine on Feb. 15, killing a 70-year-old woman, the Kherson Oblast Military Administration reported.

Ukraine's Armed Forces liberated Kherson and other regional settlements on the west bank of the Dnipro River in the fall 2022 counteroffensive.

Russian troops were pushed to the river's east bank, from where they have since been firing at the liberated territories, regularly resulting in civilian deaths as well as large-scale destruction of homes and infrastructure.

Russia used artillery to carry out the latest attack at around 11:30 a.m. local time, the regional prosecutor’s office said on Telegram. The woman was reportedly walking down a street at the time.

Russian strikes against Kherson Oblast on Feb. 14 and overnight killed one person and injured another five people, including a child, Oleksandr Prokudin, the regional governor, reported early on Feb. 15.

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Dinara Khalilova is a freelance Ukraine-based journalist and editor. She previously worked as a reporter and a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. In the early weeks of Russia's full-scale invasion, she worked as a fixer and local producer for Sky News' team in Ukraine. Dinara holds a BA in journalism from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and a Master's degree in media and communication from Bournemouth University in the U.K.

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