Occupiers attacked minibus in Kherson with UAV, ecologist of city council killed and seven other people injured. VIDEO 18+ (updated)
On the evening of Monday, 6 January, Russian invaders attacked public transport in the Shumenskyi district of Kherson from a drone .
This was reported by the Kherson Regional State Administration, Censor.NET reports.
Preliminarily, one person was killed and nine others were injured.
Information about the attack is still being clarified.
Updated information
Later, the head of the Kherson RMA, Oleksandr Prokudin, provided updated information about the attack on a minibus in Kherson.
"A 50-year-old man was killed as a result of explosives dropped from a Russian drone on a minibus in the Shumenskyi district. He received an explosive injury incompatible with life. Five other people were also injured. Women aged 47, 55, 58, 51 and 30 were taken to the hospital. Currently, doctors are examining all the victims and providing the necessary assistance," the official said.
Later he informed about another victim of the Russian attack.
"Another resident of Kherson was wounded as a result of an attack by an enemy drone in the Shumensky district. A 21-year-old man received an explosive injury and shrapnel wounds to his legs. He is currently in hospital under medical supervision," the statement said.
Update
At 6:51 p.m., Roman Mrochko, head of the Kherson CMA, reported that an ecologist of the city council, Volodymyr Shum, was killed in a Russian UAV attack on a bus.
"Volodymyr Ivanovych Shum was a specialist in the ecology department of the municipal services and improvement department of the municipal economy department of the Kherson City Council. Russian terrorists killed the only ecologist who was physically working in the Kherson community today. He was supposed to celebrate his 51st birthday in a few days," wrote the head of the CMA.
It also became known about another injured woman.
"Another victim of the racist attack on the bus is in the hospital - a woman born in 1998. She has a mine-blast injury. Further examination is underway," Mrochko wrote.
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