💥 Attack

Ukrainian defenders conducted counter-battery operations on the Kherson front, striking Russian rear positions.

November 9, 2023 Skadovsk, Kherson Oblast

Verified Independently confirmed by 4 sources

Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent Kyiv Post Censor.NET

Multiple high-reliability sources confirm the core facts of this event.

Entities

Ukrainian defenders (military_unit) HIMARS (weapon_system) FSB (organization) Petro Andriushchenko (person) Russia's Investigative Committee (organization) Volodymyr Saldo (person) Russian forces (organization) Russian armed forces (organization) Ukrainian troops (military_unit) Ukrainian forces (organization) Ukrainian Armed Forces (organization) Russian troops (organization) Russian officers (military_unit) Russian proxies (organization) Ukraine (organization) Skadovsk (location) Radianska Ukraina (location) National Resistance Center (organization) Kherson (location) Bilozerka (location) Bilozerka community (location) 50-year-old woman (person) Russia (organization) Grad rocket (weapon_system) Vladimir Saldo (person) Armed Forces of Ukraine (military_unit) Krynky (location) Poima (location) Pishchanivka (location) Pidstepne (location) Cossack Camps (location) Operational Command "South" (military_unit) Natalia Humeniuk (person) Kherson Region (location) Shahed drone (weapon_system) Zolota Balka (location)

Source Reports

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Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: likely

Ukrainian defenders conducted counter-battery operations on Kherson front

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

The strikes damaged a kindergarten, a church, and other buildings in Kherson and elsewhere in the oblast

Kyiv Post → Source tone: certain

A Soviet-era Grad rocket tore through a building's ninth floor, killing Natalya's mother

Censor.NET → Source tone: uncertain

Russian military bloggers claimed Ukrainian forces advanced into forests south of Krynky and attacked near Poima, Pishchanivka, Pidstepne, and Cossack Camps.

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