KIEV (Reuters) – Two people were killed on Monday morning after Russian forces shelled a parking lot in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, authorities said.
Regional prosecutors have opened a war crimes investigation into the artillery strike, which took place around 9 a.m. (0700 GMT) and injured another person, the regional prosecutor’s office reported.
Kherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said the two dead were drivers of a “private transport company”.
Footage posted on Telegram showed firefighters dousing destroyed cars, a day after another strike on the city injured five people, including a 3-year-old girl.
Russian forces have regularly bombarded Kherson from across the Dnipro River since the regional capital was deoccupied by Ukrainian troops last November.
Ukraine said last week that it had gained a foothold on the eastern bank of the Dnipro and its troops were trying to push Russian forces further back.