Three more were injured in a Russian shelling attack on the southern city of Kherson on Monday, as Kyiv doubled down on its warnings that Russia was planning to pummel Ukraine's energy infrastructure ahead of the winter.
The governor of the Odesa region, Oleg Kiper, said most of the collection had already been removed during the war.A woman who lived in a nearby building said she and her family were away during the strike but their home had been damaged. In an interview with German newspaper Die Welt published Monday, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he was bracing for"the worst winter ever".The southern region of Kherson was also targeted in an overnight missile strike and came under renewed artillery fire.Governor Oleksandr Prokudin posted footage of a five-storey building with most of its windows shattered and its walls partially collapsed after the overnight missile strike.
Kyiv has been urging Western allies to buttress Ukraine's air defence systems ahead of a feared intensification of Russian strikes during the winter months.