Russians kill two civilians in Kherson
Roman Mrochko, Head of the Kherson City Military Administration, reported that Russian forces attacked the city of Kherson three times on March 19, 2025, killing two people.
The first attack occurred at around 11 am, which resulted in fatal injuries to an unidentified man. Specialists are currently working to establish his identity.
At around 13:00, the Russians launched a drone attack on the village of Antonivka, a suburb of Kherson. A 61-year-old resident sustained a blast injury and a shrapnel wound to his leg. Police officers transported him to the hospital, where he receives medical care.
At approximately 14:00, Russians fired about 10 shells on residential areas of the village of Zelenivka, near Kherson.
As a result of the attack, the shelling killed a local woman. The 54-year-old woman was outside when the shelling began and suffered a fatal blast injury.
By way of background, on March 17, Russians killed two civilians in the city of Kherson and its outskirts, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration.
Prokudin said that the Russian army attacked a resident of Kherson in the Dniprovskyi district with a drone at around 19:00. The 56-year-old man died on the spot as a result of the explosion.
Another person was killed in Sunday’s attack on the village of Antonivka. A 71-year-old man sustained fatal injuries.
ZMINA consistently reports on the ongoing international crimes in the Kherson Oblast.
The Washington Post, which spoke to people familiar with classified US intelligence reports, reported that US intelligence believes that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has not abandoned his desire to control Ukraine, despite the Trump administration’s efforts to stop the Russo-Ukrainian war.
One of the classified assessments, dated March 6 and circulated among members of the Trump administration, states that Putin remains determined to gain control over Kyiv.
Some current and former US officials told the publication that even if Putin agrees to a temporary truce, he will use it to regroup and rearm his forces. They believe that Russia is likely to violate the terms of an agreement by staging a provocation and blaming Ukraine for it.
Meanwhile, a European intelligence official, citing fresh intelligence data, stated that officials in Moscow consider Trump to be weak, lacking a fundamental set of principles and susceptible to manipulation.
The European intelligence representative noted that if a permanent ceasefire is reached, Moscow is likely to return to the “hybrid” or non-military means of undermining Ukraine, which it employed before the full-scale invasion in 2022.
The official said these methods include economic and diplomatic coercion, infiltration of Ukrainian elites, business circles, security services and armed forces, as well as influence through the Russian church in Ukraine.
