According to Ukrainian officials, Russian military drones are swarming the skies over the front-line city of Kherson, carrying out deadly attacks that appear to target civilians.
"Since the first day of this year alone, the enemy has attacked the region [with drones] about 650 times," Oleksandr Prokudin, head of Kherson's regional military government, said in a post on the Telegram social media app earlier this month. "Seven people have died and 55 have been injured as a result of these attacks."
Not all the Russian strikes target civilians, but during a recent trip to Kherson, in southern Ukraine on the banks of the Dnipro River, people were found terrified by the constant threat.
From the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, Kherson was a dangerous place.
The city, once home to a quarter million people, was occupied by Russian soldiers until Ukraine's army pushed them out in November 2022.
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