Two men were killed on Monday in a Russian shelling in southern Ukraine, with other areas of the country targeted in overnight drone attacks, local authorities announced.
Oleksandr Prokudin, the governor of the Kherson region, announced on the Telegram app that “one resident of Kherson was killed in the shelling,” adding that a 72-year-old man was also injured in the attack.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, a man was killed after a raid on a town near the frontline, according to local governor Ivan Fedorov.
Earlier on Monday, Ukraine reported that it had shot down more than 29 Russian drones overnight targeting areas in the west, central, and southern parts of the country.
The governor of the Mykolaiv region stated that debris from a drone damaged a private residence and caused a woman to suffer burns.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that air defense systems intercepted unmanned aerial vehicles over the central Poltava region, the southern Odesa region on the Black Sea, and the western Lviv region bordering Poland.
Kyiv has requested more air defense systems from the West to protect this region bordering Russia.
Russia is launching a ground offensive in the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine and has seized control of several villages.
