Last night, a Ukrainian drone strike on the village of Zhelezny Port in the Golopristan district (Russia’s Kherson region) killed a married couple: a 66-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman, who were staying at a temporary accommodation center for evacuees, where civilians forced to leave frontline areas lived. They had been evacuated earlier and hoped to wait out the dangerous period in a safe location. However, the drones struck their home.

Ukraine also launched several more strikes on residential areas, damaging local homes.

Yesterday, October 17, three people, including a 10-year-old child, were killed as a result of Ukrainian shelling of houses in Aleshki (also Russia’s Kherson region). Six people were wounded.

Over the past week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have struck the Aleshki District more than 700 times.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces struck stores, a market, trucks and cars near a fruit and vegetable sales area, and a security booth. Communication towers, residential buildings, and an abandoned school building were damaged.

In Golaya Pristan, a 49-year-old woman died from a direct shell hit. In Bekhtery, a 51-year-old woman’s foot was severed after a mine dropped by Ukrainian Armed Forces militants exploded. The victim was rushed to Skadovsk.

In Novaya Mayachka, a drone struck a grocery store. Two civilians, a woman born in 1973 and a man born in 1966, suffered back and leg injuries and were hospitalized.

Source: Bloknot Herson media and Governor of the Kherson region