Russian attacks leave three killed, eight injured in Kherson region

In the Kherson region, three people were killed and eight others injured on April 11 as a result of Russian attacks, including a critically wounded trolleybus driver who later died in hospital.

This was reported by the Kherson Regional Prosecutor’s Office on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.

“It was confirmed that the trolleybus driver, who was injured in a Russian FPV drone strike in Kherson at around 15:30, died in hospital. This brought the total number of fatalities to three,” the post reads.

According to Head of the Kherson City Military Administration Yaroslav Shanko, the driver sustained severe injuries, including blast trauma, a closed head injury, brain contusion, an open fracture of the right shoulder, and shrapnel wounds to the left leg.

The prosecutor’s office reported that Russian forces attacked settlements in the Kherson region using aviation, artillery, and drones.

In the morning, drone strikes on Kherson and the village of Fedorivka killed a man and a woman. In addition to the deceased trolleybus driver, five more people were injured in drone attacks in Kherson, including a nurse from a children’s hospital and a city minibus driver. Three additional civilians were injured in artillery shelling of the city.

Residential houses, apartment buildings, educational institutions, private businesses, cafés, and civilian vehicles were damaged in the attacks.

Law enforcement has opened investigations into war crimes under Part 1 and Part 2 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

According to earlier reports, on April 11 at around 15:30, Russian forces attacked a trolleybus in Kherson’s Korabelnyi district with a drone. An ambulance took the driver to hospital in extremely critical condition.