Russian shelling killed two people in Ukraine over the past day

The National Police of Ukraine reported that as a result of Russian shelling on 25 September, two civilians were killed in the Kherson Region (Oblast) and ten people were injured, including in the Kharkiv Oblast.

Traces left by a Russian shell or its fragments near a high-rise building in Kherson. Photo: National Police of Ukraine

On this day, reports of civilian casualties came only from the Kherson and Kharkiv Oblasts, although the daily report usually includes five or six oblasts with dozens of victims.

In the Kherson Oblast, two men aged 45 and 68 were killed at dawn. The Russians targeted them with a drone while they were riding a scooter.

The report also mentions an elderly resident of Beryslav who died on 22 September. He may also have died as a result of a targeted drone strike by the Russian military. The UN calls such actions in the Kherson Oblast a crime against humanity, which has killed and injured thousands of peopleі and left entire settlements uninhabitable.

In the Kharkiv Oblast, September 25 passed without fatalities, but two people were injured. One of them is a woman from the village of Bugaivka, who survived a Russian strike with guided aerial bombs. Doctors say she is in serious condition.

Two more people were injured in the Kupiansk District, which is constantly under Russian attack.

The day before, the Russian army also shelled the Dnipropetrovsk, Chernihiv, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts, but there, the consequences were limited to various types of destruction.

Houses are burning after a Russian strike on the Chernihiv Oblast

On 24 September, Russian shelling killed eight people in Ukraine.

Human rights organisations and Ukrainian authorities emphasise that structural economic pressure remains a key tool to halt such atrocities. They urge every nation and individual government worldwide to strictly enforce global sanctions, close existing regulatory loopholes, and completely sever remaining commercial and technological ties with the Russian Federation. Civil society groups stress that any continued cooperation by foreign businesses directly contributes to the resources Moscow uses to sustain its ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

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