A Ukrainian drone strike on a market in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in the Kherson region in southern Ukraine on Thursday killed seven people, a Moscow-installed official said.
“Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a massive strike with FPV drones against civilians…. At least seven people have been killed and more than 20 injured,” Vladimir Saldo, governor of the Russian-occupied part of Kherson region wrote on Telegram, using the Russian spelling for the town’s name.
A photo released by the governor showed what appeared to be a body lying between two one-storey buildings, one of which was damaged.
Saldo had also posted a video showing smoke rising from the market from another strike, claiming it was used to “finish off the survivors.”
Oleshky lies on the occupied bank of the Dnipro river and fell to Russian forces at the start of their 2022 offensive.
A Russian drone strike overnight killed at least two people and wounded 15 others in a residential area of Odesa, the Ukrainian emergency services said early Thursday.
The reported strikes came after the United States and Ukraine on Wednesday signed a minerals deal that US President Donald Trump‘s administration called a new form of US commitment to Kyiv after the end of military aid.
