0 out of 25,000

Quality journalism takes work — and a community that cares.
Help us reach 25,000 members by the end of 2025.

News Feed

Russian forces shell Kherson Oblast, injuring 3 people, including 2 children

1 min read

Three people, including one child, were injured by Russian shelling of Kherson Oblast on May 31, according to reports from local officials.

A three-year-old girl was injured by shelling in the village of Shyroka Balka, Kherson Oblast Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported on May 31.

According to Prokudin, the girl sustained a serious injury to the head from glass shards and has been hospitalized in Kherson.

The Prosecutor General's Office also reported on May 31 that a 30-year-old man and a child of an unspecified age were also injured after the villages of Stanislav and Bilozerka were shelled.

In one of the villages, a projectile hit the courtyard of a house, and the child sustained shrapnel injuries to the head. As a result, the child has been hospitalized, the Prosecutor General's Office said.  

The extent of the 30-year-old man's injuries was not specified.

Kherson Oblast has endured shelling on a near-daily basis since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.

Kherson chronicle: From quick fall to liberation
Avatar
Kate Tsurkan

Culture Reporter

Kate Tsurkan is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent who writes mostly about culture-related topics. Her newsletter Explaining Ukraine with Kate Tsurkan, which focuses specifically on Ukrainian culture, is published weekly by the Kyiv Independent and is partially supported by a generous grant from the Nadia Sophie Seiler Fund. Kate co-translated Oleh Sentsov’s “Diary of a Hunger Striker,” Myroslav Laiuk’s “Bakhmut,” Andriy Lyubka’s “War from the Rear,” and Khrystia Vengryniuk’s “Long Eyes,” among other books. Some of her previous writing and translations have appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Harpers, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of Apofenie Magazine and, in addition to Ukrainian and Russian, also knows French.

Read more
News Feed
Show More