Russia kills four civilians and injures ten more in Donetsk and Kherson Oblasts
Four people were killed, and ten others injured in the Donetsk and Kherson Oblasts on March 1, 2025, according to the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration and Kherson Oblast Military Administration.
The Russians killed four residents of the Donetsk Oblast: two in Lyman, one in Myrnohrad and one in Siversk.
Another six people in the oblast were injured during the past day, two in Kostiantynivka, two in Pokrovsk, one in Stavky and one in Molocharka. Four people were injured due to Russian aggression in the Kherson Oblast.
Russians hit civil infrastructure and residential areas of settlements in Kherson Oblast, including a high-rise building and 15 houses. They also destroyed outbuildings, a garage and a car.
Previously, Russian forces attacked the town of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk Oblast on the morning of February 27. Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, reported that Russians killed a 32-year-old man and injured four others.
On February 24, Russian armed personnel attacked the city of Sloviansk in the Donetsk Oblast and killed one person. Vadym Filashkin, head of the Donetsk Oblast Military Administration, reported two explosions occurred at around 16:00.
The Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor’s Office specified that Russian soldiers attacked the settlements of Fedorivka, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, and Kostiantynivka that day. As a result of the attacks, they killed one person and injured five others.
Preliminary reports indicate that the Russians used D-30SN universal gliding inter-service munitions.
Twenty-five minutes later, the Russians dropped a FAB-250 bomb equipped with a UMPK unified gliding and correction module on the town of Kostiantynivka. A residential area was struck and an 81-year-old woman was injured with glass shrapnel.
On February 19, Filashkin reported that Russians dropped four guided aerial bombs on the city of Kostiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast in the morning. They killed two people and injured two others.
On the night of 23-24 February, the Russians attacked Kherson’s Dniprovskyi district. Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, reported that a 72-year-old man was killed in an attack on a house. Rescue workers retrieved his body from under the rubble.
The body of an elderly woman was also found in a house that was destroyed by a Russian attack on a village of Mylove in Kherson Oblast.
The State Emergency Service in Kherson Oblast reported that the village of Komyshany also came under Russian fire that day. A house caught fire, and firefighters put it out.
Earlier, Prokudin and the State Emergency Service reported that rescue workers found a woman’s body under the rubble of a high-rise apartment building in Kherson, which Russian forces attacked on the evening of February 19. She was the mother of 13-year-old fraternal twins who suffered injuries in the attack and whom rescuers had pulled from the rubble the day before.
ZMINA consistently reports on the ongoing international crimes in the Donetsk and Kherson Oblasts.
In related news, US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky clashed in a fiery exchange during a state visit to Washington, D.C.
An opposition MP in Ukraine’s parliament, Inna Sovsun, told the BBC that she was shocked by the exchange that unfolded at the Oval Office.
“We did not expect this level of aggression towards our president,” Inna Sovsun said.
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice assessed this meeting as being set up for Zelenskyy.
Later, Zelenskyy wrote in a post on X that America’s help has been vital in helping us survive, and I want to acknowledge that.
“Despite the tough discussion, we remain strategic partners. But we need to be honest and direct with each other to truly understand our shared goals.”
He added that Ukraine is “very grateful” to the United States for all the support, especially during the three years of full-scale invasion, and gives his thanks to President Trump.
