Vladimir Putin’s forces have unleashed fatal missile attacks on Kherson, causing damage to the railway and preventing trains from Kyiv and Lviv reaching the city, reports say.
Suspilne, Ukraine’s state broadcaster, reports that one person was killed in the overnight bombardment targeting five areas across Kherson, while trains travelling from the north and west of Ukraine are reportedly being forced to terminate at Mykolaiv.
Regional governor Volodymyr Litvinov also said that residential buildings and farm buildings were damaged by shelling in Beryslav, Kherson and that two people were killed when a mine exploded near to Novoraisk village.
Meanwhile, Russian soldiers have managed to advance 2km (1.24 miles) west into Ukraine in the last four days, according to a statement by Russia’s defence ministry issued today.
In a statement, the ministry said: “The Russian servicemen broke the enemy’s resistance and advanced several kilometres deeper into its echeloned defence.
“In four days the front moved 2 kilometres to the west,” the ministry said, reported Interfax news agency.
