Russian strikes hit 31 settlements in Kherson Oblast, killing two and wounding 20 in a single day
Russian forces struck 31 settlements across Kherson Oblast over a 24-hour period using aviation, artillery, and drones, killing two civilians and wounding 20, including two children. Damage was reported to residential buildings and to critical, transport, and social infrastructure. The casualty figures were reported by Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration.
Key points
- Russian forces attacked 31 populated areas of Kherson Oblast in one day using aviation, artillery, and drones.
- Two people were killed and 20 wounded, including two children, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration.
- Four multi-storey apartment buildings and seven private houses were damaged.
- An administrative building, a cellular tower, an outbuilding, and a gas pipe were also damaged.
- Strikes hit critical, transport, and social infrastructure as well as residential areas.
- On Sunday at 07:10, a drone attack on the Korabelnyi district of Kherson wounded a 59-year-old man walking on the street; he was hospitalized in moderate condition with shrapnel wounds to the leg, a concussion, and blast and closed head injuries.
- On the evening of September 5, a drone struck a multi-storey residential building in Kherson, injuring a family of four: a 12-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl, a 36-year-old woman, and a 39-year-old man, according to the Kherson Oblast Prosecutor's Office.
- Three Kherson residents — an 84-year-old man, a 75-year-old woman, and a 43-year-old man — were hospitalized after a Russian guided aerial bomb struck a residential building in the Dnipro district, with diagnoses of blast injuries, concussions, and acoustic barotrauma.
- On September 5 around midday, a Russian drone attacked a passenger train in Kherson Oblast, damaging two diesel locomotives and injuring a railway worker.
Why it matters
Two civilians were killed and 20 wounded, including two children, in a single day of strikes across Kherson Oblast. The attacks combined aviation, artillery, and drones and targeted residential areas alongside critical, transport, and social infrastructure. Civilian sites repeatedly hit in this period included multi-storey apartment buildings, private houses, a passenger train, and a residential building struck by a guided aerial bomb, underscoring the ongoing exposure of the region's civilian population to daily bombardment.
What happened
Over a 24-hour period Russian forces attacked 31 populated areas of Kherson Oblast using aviation, artillery, and drones. Head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration Oleksandr Prokudin reported that two people were killed and 20 wounded, among them two children. Strikes hit critical, transport, and social infrastructure as well as residential neighborhoods. Damage was recorded at four multi-storey apartment buildings and seven private houses, along with an administrative building, a cellular tower, an outbuilding, and a gas pipe. The settlements named as coming under fire included Antonivka, Beryslav, Bilozirka, Urozhaine, Novoraisk, Pravdyne, Nadiivka, Zorivka, Lymanets, Dniprovske, Chornobaivka, Sadove, Novodmytrivka, Molodizhne, Stepanivka, Mykilske, Prydniprovske, Osokorivka, Dudchany, Zolota Balka, Kachkarivka, Lvove, Mylove, Mykhailivka, Novokairy, Novooleksandrivka, Odradokamianka, Oleksandrivka, Poniativka, Tokarivka, and Kherson. On Sunday at 07:10, a drone attack on the Korabelnyi district of Kherson wounded a 59-year-old man who was walking on the street; he was hospitalized in moderate condition with shrapnel wounds to the leg, a concussion, and blast and closed head injuries. On the evening of September 5, a drone hit a multi-storey residential building in Kherson, injuring a family of four — a 12-year-old boy, an 11-year-old girl, a 36-year-old woman, and a 39-year-old man — according to the Kherson Oblast Prosecutor's Office. Separately, three residents of the Dnipro district of Kherson — an 84-year-old man, a 75-year-old woman, and a 43-year-old man — were hospitalized after a Russian guided aerial bomb struck a residential building; they were diagnosed with blast injuries, concussions, and acoustic barotrauma. On September 5 around midday, a Russian drone attacked a passenger train in the oblast, damaging two diesel locomotives and injuring a railway worker.
Where reporting differs
Sources give two spelling variants of the same list of settlements attacked. One set uses forms such as 'Berislav', 'Nadiivka', 'Dniprovskе', 'Prydniprovske', and 'Novokairy'; another uses 'Beryslav', 'Nadiyivka', 'Dniprovsky', 'Prydniprovsky', and 'Novokairy' / 'Novokaigry' / 'Novooleksandrivka'. The underlying list of 31 settlements is the same across sources.
Background
Kherson Oblast has been a frontline region subject to daily Russian shelling since areas on the right bank of the Dnipro were retaken by Ukraine in late 2022. Oleksandr Prokudin is identified in the supplied facts as the head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration reporting the casualty figures.