Russian forces shelled Kherson, targeting civilians using motorboats for flood evacuation work and injuring nine civilians.
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Russian forces shelled Kherson, targeting civilians using motorboats for flood evacuation work and injuring nine civilians.
That includes regular attacks on Kherson city itself. The provincial capital was occupied by Russian forces for about eight months and is now partly flooded due to the destruction of the Kakhovka dam earlier this week.
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Source story: day-470-2023-06-08