Russian troops bomb southern village of Chornobaivka

On Thursday, the Russian army attacked the village of Chornobaivka in the southern Kherson region for the second time in a day.

The regional military administration said the Russian forces were hitting the homes of the local civilians, Rubryka reports.

An unconscious 71-year-old man was fatally injured by the Russian bombing, dying on the way to the hospital. Another 70-year-old man was injured and treated at the scene.

The administration reported that due to today's and previous airstrikes, dozens of houses in the village were damaged, and some of them lost electricity.

Before that, the Russians struck Chornobaivka on the night of October 12. Then, a 70-year-old man died in his own yard. Eyewitnesses said that he tried to take cover during the shelling.

Over the past day, the Russian army carried out 98 rounds of shelling of the Kherson region, firing 500 shells from mortars, artillery, Grad launchers, tanks, ATGMs, aviation, and UAVs. 

"The enemy fired 12 shells at the city of Kherson," Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, reported. 

The Russian military targeted the residential quarters in populated areas, building an educational institution in the Berislav area and the cemetery near Kherson. Four people were injured throughout the region.

On Wednesday evening, the Russians shelled Kherson from the left bank of the Dnipro River.

Rubryka reported that Russian troops attacked Ukraine south with unmanned aerial vehicles. The air defense downed ten Shahed-131/136 UAVs in the Odesa region and four more in the Mykolaiv region. The Air Defense Forces destroyed 28 air targets throughout Ukraine.