{"id":39910,"date":"2024-06-08T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39910"},"modified":"2024-06-08T11:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T11:00:40","slug":"russia-accuses-ukraine-of-shelling-that-leaves-at-least-25-dead-in-occupied-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=39910","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u00a0accuses\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0of\u00a0shelling\u00a0that leaves at least 25 dead in\u00a0occupied east"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Russia accused Ukraine of shelling the Russian-occupied eastern territories of Kherson and Luhansk on Friday, leaving at least 25 dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kherson and Luhansk were among four Ukrainian territories Russia claimed to have annexed in September 2022 following its full-scale invasion. The international community, aside from North Korea and Syria, does not recognize the annexation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vladimir Saldo, the Russia-appointed governor of the southern Kherson region<\/a>, accused Ukrainian forces of killing 22 people, including a 9-year-old child, in the shelling of the small town of Sadove on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saldo claimed that Ukrainian forces did \u201ca double-tap\u201d missile strike on a grocery store and the civilian area in Sadove. The grocery store, he noted, was packed with customers and staff when it was hit. The first attack was carried out using a French-supplied aerial bomb and the successive one with an American-supplied HIMARS missile, he told Russia 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the\u00a0Russian-appointed head\u00a0of\u00a0the self-declared\u00a0Luhansk\u00a0People\u2019s Republic, Leonid Pasechnik,\u00a0said on Telegram a Ukrainian strike on\u00a0<\/strong>Luhansk\u00a0killed three people and wounded 35 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the strikes \u201ccynical and [a] bloody crime\u201d on Friday and blamed Washington for giving \u201cthe green light\u201d to Kyiv \u201cto kill civilians with Western weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson region military administration, dismissed the Russian claims in a Telegram post on Friday, calling them \u201ca vivid example of how Russian propaganda works.\u201d  Prokudin pointed to Saldo incorrectly citing the attack in Kherson region as happening on Saturday instead of Friday, in an insinutation the claim was made up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artem Lysohor, head of Luhansk region military administration, said that the Ukrainian strikes were \u201cexclusively on the old and well-equipped military infrastructure of the occupiers\u201d and blamed Russian air defense systems for intercepting the rockets over civilian neighborhoods, suggesting the falling debris caused casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russia has been pressing in the east, which it seeks to capture in full, as it continues its assault on Ukraine\u2019s northeastern region of Kharkiv after launching a surprise offensive last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine recorded its highest monthly number of civilian casualties in almost one year, with the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) recording a \u201csignificant increase\u201d (31%) in civilians killed in Ukraine in May compared to April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver half of the casualties in May occurred in Kharkiv city and region where Russian armed forces launched a new ground offensive on 10 May,\u201d the head of the HRMMU Danielle Bell said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bell attributed the increase to Russia\u2019s move to use \u201cair-dropped bombs and missiles in populated areas such as communities near the frontline and Kharkiv city.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CNN: Russia accused Ukraine of shelling the Russian-occupied eastern territories of Kherson and Luhansk on Friday, leaving at least 25 dead. Kherson and Luhansk were among four Ukrainian territories Russia claimed to have annexed in September 2022 following its full-scale invasion. The international community, aside from North Korea and Syria, does not recognize the annexation. Vladimir Saldo, the Russia-appointed governor of the southern Kherson region, accused Ukrainian forces of killing 22 people, including a 9-year-old child, in the shelling of the small town of Sadove on Friday. Saldo claimed that Ukrainian forces did \u201ca double-tap\u201d missile strike on a grocery store and the civilian area in Sadove. The grocery store, he noted, was packed with customers and staff when it was hit. The first… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39912,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39910\/revisions\/39912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}