President Zelensky posts Kherson tragedy on social media
At least seven people have been killed and 58 others injured after Russia launched an indiscriminate shelling on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Christmas Eve (local time), Associated Press and AFP reported.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who returned from a visit to Washington, D.C., posted photos of burning cars, dead bodies on the streets, and destroyed buildings in Kherson on his social media account that day, saying, “This is what real life in Kherson looks like.” said.
After calling it “an act of (Russian) terrorism in the heart of the city on Christmas Eve”, Zelensky added, “The whole world must see clearly what absolute evil we are fighting against.”
Kirilo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said that the Russian shelling of Kherson killed seven people and wounded 58, of which 16 were in serious condition.
Kherson authorities claimed that Russian forces had shelled Kherson 74 times the day before, killing five people and wounding 17 others.
Kherson is a strategic point connecting the Crimean Peninsula of Ukraine, which was forcibly annexed by Russia in 2014, and the eastern Donbass (Donetsk and Luhansk Regions) regions occupied by pro-Russian separatist forces by land.
Ukraine recaptured Kherson, a strategic southern city lost to Russia at the beginning of the war, in about eight months last month.
Russia, which has retreated, is shelling key infrastructure in Kherson day after day, as if retaliation.
Today is exactly 10 months since Russia invaded Ukraine, and it is Christmas Eve, but Russia has not stopped its attacks on Kherson.
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