US EditionRetaliation? Putin ‘Closely Monitors’ Criminal Strikes on Civilians in Kherson
- On the night of June 2, 2025, Ukrainian forces struck over 120 Russian-occupied military sites in Zaporizhia and Kherson regions using drones.
- The strike targeted ammunition depots and power substations, marking the largest attack on occupied territory since 2022 and disrupting Russian logistics.
- In response, Russian forces launched multiple strikes on Kherson city center on June 4 and 5, damaging civilian buildings including schools, medical facilities, and residences.
- Reports from the UN and Human Rights Watch classified the Russian attacks on civilian targets as indiscriminate and violations of international humanitarian law, potentially amounting to war crimes.
- Russian-Installed authorities stated President Vladimir Putin monitors the situation closely amid ongoing hostilities that the UN and others say aim to terrorize civilians and displace residents in Kherson.
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President Volidimir Zelensky called the attacks “deliberate” and military senseless. He pointed out that the attackers “are totally disturbed creatures”
Russian aviation dropped four guided bombs on the centre of the city, damaging the administrative building and destroying the entrance to a building, said Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the region's military administration and the district prosecutor's office.
Due to the explosion of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant by the Russians, 600 square kilometers of the Kherson region were flooded, in particular, 68 settlements in the region, irrigation was destroyed - because of this, the agrarian sphere suffered. - Ukrinform.
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski strongly condemned the Russian attack on Herson's administration building, cataloging these rights of “completely ill creatures” and demanding more pressure on Moscow for the end of the war.
Russia today launched two airstrikes on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, hitting the regional administration building - damaging it in the first strike and completely destroying it in the second. Ukrainian media reported this, citing regional administration chief Oleksandr Prokudin and Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. The Ukrinform agency noted that the building had been abandoned long before the attacks. "Russia launched a secon…
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