The death toll as a result of today's shelling of the center of Kherson by the Russian army has risen to 10, head of the Kherson regional administration Yaroslav Yanushevich said on the air of the national telethon. He specified that 55 people were injured, 18 of them are in serious condition.
66 passenger cars burned down, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
The shelling of the city was carried out from multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS). Firefighters put out the blaze within 40 minutes.
Volodymyr Zelensky commented on the Russian shelling: “Social networks are likely to mark these photos as ‘sensitive content’. But this is not sensitive content – this is the real life of Ukraine and Ukrainians. The terrorist country continues to carry the Russian world in the form of shelling of the civilian population. Kherson. Morning, Saturday, Christmas Eve, in the central part of the city. These are not military installations, this is not a war by the rules. This is terror, this is murder for the sake of intimidation and pleasure. The world must see and understand what absolute evil we are fighting against.”
Earlier, the regional prosecutor's office reported that seven people had died.