Russian military killed seven civilians in Ukraine on March 1
As a result of Russian military shelling on March 1, seven civilians were killed in the Kherson and Donetsk regions, and at least 11 others were injured, including in the Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv regions, according to the National Police.
A private yard struck by a Russian attack in the Zaporizhzhia OblastThe victims of the Russian strikes on March 1 were:
- A man from a frontline village in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, who had moved there with his family from the Donetsk region;
- A 58-year-old man who died in the hospital following enemy artillery shelling in the Shumenskyi District of Kherson city;
- Four Kherson residents killed by a Russian strike while they were near a residential building in the aforementioned District;
- One person in Oleksiyevo-Druzhkivka, the Donetsk Oblast.
In the Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Russian shelling on March 1 injured four civilians. Among them were two children in Komyshuvakha, which was targeted by airstrikes, and two adults from Orikhiv and Bilenke, who were hit by drones.
Similarly, four people were injured due to Russian strikes in the Kherson region: first, Russian forces attacked Novokayiry with drones, injuring two people, and later struck Kherson with artillery, injuring two more.
A children’s sports ground struck by the Russian military in the Kharkiv OblastIn the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, which the Russian Federation shelled nearly a hundred times over the past day, two women were injured as a result. Both sustained injuries when the Russians directed a drone toward one of the villages in the Myrivska “hromada,” a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements, — a device that allowed the operator to see the target before the strike. Last year, journalists identified the Russian military personnel responsible for “hunting” civilians in the region.
Another elderly woman was injured in the Kharkiv Oblast when the Russian military launched a drone strike on her house in Vilshany.
A private yard after a Russian strike in the Dnipropetrovsk regionTo provide background, over four years of the full-scale war, the Russian military has killed more than 15,000 civilians alone in Ukraine through shelling.
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