KYIV Russia's Defence Ministry yesterday alleged that Ukraine's shelling in the southern region of Kherson killed and wounded its own citizens, with strikes on a school, kindergarten and cemetery in the villages of Kyselivka and Shyroka Balka.
The ministry gave no further details on the casualties and there was no immediate response from Ukraine. The report could not be independently verified.
Russian forces captured the town of Kherson, 100km north of Russian-annexed Crimea, in March.
The accusation of attacks on civilians came on the same day that Russia said it had carried out a missile strike on a military airfield near the port city of Odesa, destroying a runway and a hangar containing weapons and ammunition supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries.
Russia's Defence Ministry said it used high-precision Onyx missiles to strike the airfield, after Ukraine accused Russia of knocking out a newly constructed runway at the main airport of Odesa. The Defence Ministry also said its air defence systems had shot down two Ukrainian Su-24m bombers over the Kharkiv region overnight.
Ukraine appeared to conduct strikes of its own, with a Russian Defence Ministry facility in the southern Belgorod region bordering Ukraine catching fire, according to Belgorod's region governor.
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