Two killed in Russian attack on Ukraine's Kherson - governor

At least two people were killed in a Russian attack on a trolleybus company in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Friday, the regional governor said. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said in an initial post on the Telegram messaging app that a municipal transport company had been hit by "targeted fire" in the attack.

At least two people were killed in a Russian attack on a trolleybus company in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Friday, the regional governor said.

Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said in an initial post on the Telegram messaging app that a municipal transport company had been hit by "targeted fire" in the attack. Describing it as "another Russian terrorist attack", he said a 55-year-old man was killed on the spot and five others were taken to hospital.

In a later post, he had said a 43-year-old man had also died of his wounds in hospital. Prokudin posted several photographs from the scene, with one showing what appeared to be a dead man in the foreground and two trolleybuses in the background. Other images showed emergency workers attending to the wounded.

The prosecutor's office said the attack took place around 10.20 a.m. Kyiv time (0720 GMT) and that it had launched an investigation. Russia, which began it's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, denies targeting civilians. Russian forces have continued shelling Kherson from positions they hold in the wider Kherson region despite flooding this month caused by the destruction of the Khakovka dam, which lies upstream from the city on the Dnipro River.