Russia kills man in Kherson, injures 2 others in New Year’s Day attacks on Ukraine
The Russian military launched an attack on Kherson and Kharkiv on January 1, 2026. In Kherson, Russians killed a 31-year-old man and injured an 87-year-old woman, while another person was wounded in a suburb of Kharkiv, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, and Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration.
Russian forces hit a multistory residential building in the central district of Kherson with a strike UAV in the morning.
Prokudin said the drone flew into the 87-year-old woman’s apartment.
She sustained a concussion, blast injuries, and a closed craniocerebral injury. An emergency medical team transported the woman to a hospital, where she is in moderate condition and receiving the necessary treatment.
Later on the first day of the new year, Russian troops also killed a man in Kherson’s Dniprovskyi District.
Moreover, Russians also attacked Kharkiv. Explosions were heard in several districts of the city. Early reports indicate Russia struck a suburb with a guided aerial bomb.
One person was injured. Medics are providing the necessary assistance.
To provide background, on December 31, Russians killed one person and injured four others in the Kherson Oblast in their attacks.
The National Police reported that as a result of shelling by the Russian military over the 24-hour period of December 29, 2025, three civilians were killed in the Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Kherson regions, and more than 10 others sustained injuries, including in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions.
Previously, Zelenskyy has also called on the world in his address at a diplomatic conference in The Hague not to ease sanctions against Russia until all of Ukraine’s territories are liberated.
Earlier, addressing colleagues from Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) member states during their meeting in Vienna, European Union Foreign Policy Chief Kaja Kallas called for steps to strip Russia of its desire to change borders by force. She reminded the assembly that Russia has invaded 19 countries over the past 100 years.
