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Russian strike on Beryslav in Kherson Oblast injures woman

by Martin Fornusek and The Kyiv Independent news desk November 14, 2023 3:45 PM 1 min read
A view of the shallow Dnipro River placed near the destructed Nova Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant in Beryslav city of Kherson Oblast, Ukraine, on June 26, 2023. Illustrative purposes only. (Svitlana Horieva/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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A Russian artillery strike on Beryslav in Kherson Oblast around midday on Nov. 14 injured a 49-year-old woman, the Kherson Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported.

The woman was provided with necessary medical attention, the prosecutors said.

No further details on the circumstances of the attack were provided at the moment.

Beryslav lies around 70 kilometers east of Kherson and just across the Dnipro River from Russian-occupied Kakhovka.

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

Russian forces were pushed to the east bank, from where they have since been firing at the liberated territories, regularly resulting in civilian deaths and injuries.

Earlier on Nov. 14, a Russian strike on Kherson injured a 54-year-old woman, the regional military administration reported.

Under deadly attacks, Kherson fights to keep life going 1 year after liberation
Sitting in a pitch-dark kitchen with just the flashlight on, 70-year-old Viacheslav Bezprozvanyi warned of an incoming shelling as soon as he heard a swish over him. Split seconds later, a thick thud of shelling hit the ground a few hundred meters away. The house shook, knocking off a

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