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Russia has attacked Kherson Oblast 55 times over the past day, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on Telegram on July 26. Two people have been killed and three others injured, he said.
According to Prokudin, Russia fired 300 projectiles in total, from tanks, aircraft, multiple rocket launchers, artillery weapons and drones.
Russian forces targeted residential areas and agricultural infrastructure, including a farm in the region's Kakhovka district.
Ukraine’s south threatened with long-term economic, agricultural decline after Kakhovka dam destruction
Ukraine’s agricultural heartland in the south of the country is threatened with long-term decline following the destruction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant and dam, Ukrainian officials fear. The destruction of the dam in the early hours of June 6, and the start of the draining of the Kakh…
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