Residents were being evacuated due to flooding caused by the destruction of the Kakhovka dam. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The Prosecutor-General’s office initially said one person had been killed by the Russian shelling, but later said no deaths had been reported.
In a statement on the Telegram messaging app, the interior ministry said the shelling had begun “precisely during the evacuation of citizens whose homes were flooded”. It reiterated accusations that Russia has abandoned people in territory it has occupied in the Kherson region, adding: “And it continues to prevent Ukraine from saving the most valuable - human lives.”
The Prosecutor-General’s office said it had opened a war crimes investigation and that another four people had been wounded in a nearby village.Russia, which began its full-scale invasion in February 2022, has denied targeting civilians though it has bombarded cities across Ukraine with missiles and drones.Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said earlier on Thursday that 68 per cent of the flooded territory in the Kherson region was on the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnipro River.
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