Russian bombing of the heart of the Ukrainian city of Kherson

On Sunday, Russian forces shelled the main city center of Kherson, from which Russian soldiers withdrew last month. in one of Moscow’s biggest setbacks on the battlefield in Ukraine.

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy director of Ukraine’s presidential office, said three people were injured in the attacks.

Kherson region governor Yaroslav Yanushevich also said on Sunday that Russia carried out 54 rocket, mortar and tank attacks in the previous day, killing three people and wounding six.

Interestingly, the Russian withdrawal from Kherson was a major setback for the Russian military, especially as it is the first major Ukrainian city to fall into its hands since the conflict broke out on February 24.

It also constitutes, together with Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhia, the four regions that the Kremlin announced at the end of September (2022) to annex.

Furthermore, its geographical position is of particular importance, as the region lies on the borders of the Dnipro, Petrovsk and Nikolaev regions, and has land borders with the Crimea to the south, while facing the Black Sea to the southwest and southeast the Sea of ​​Azov.

Since last October 10, Russia has started carrying out massive air strikes on Ukrainian infrastructure, in especially on power plants, in apparent response to the bombing of the Crimean peninsula bridge, which he annexed to his lands in 20014, and the retreat of his forces also in some regions of southern Ukraine, in especially Kherson, as well as in the northeast.

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