Ukraine war: Three-week-old baby and family among seven killed in Russian shelling

BBC News:

A baby aged just 23 days, her 12-year-old brother and their parents were among seven people killed by Russian shells in southern Ukraine on Sunday.

Bombs hit their family home in the village of Shyroka Balka in Kherson, Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said.

The dead also included another village resident and two men in the neighbouring Stanislav.

“Terrorists must be stopped. They must be stopped by force,” said Mr Klymenko. “They don’t understand anything else.”

The minister shared photographs of the aftermath of the attack on Shyroka Balka, showing black columns of smoke rising from buildings, and the digitally obscured bodies of some of the dead.

Kherson was one of four regions in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed to have annexed last year.

Ukraine’s military reclaimed the western part of the region last November but Russian troops have continued to shell the area from across the Dnipro river.