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Russian Forces Kill Six, Including Infant In Ukraine Region

FILE
August 13, 2023

Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko wrote on Telegram that a local resident was killed in the enemy artillery shelling of Shyroka Balka, as well as "a family: husband, wife and their daughter who is only 23 days old. A 12-year-old son was hospitalized in serious condition. The child's condition is critical."

Six people including an infant were killed by Russian shelling in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on Sunday.

Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko wrote on Telegram that a local resident was killed in the enemy artillery shelling of Shyroka Balka, as well as "a family: husband, wife and their daughter who is only 23 days old. A 12-year-old son was hospitalized in serious condition. The child's condition is critical."

“Russia killed six people in the region of Kherson,” Klymenko said.

In Stanislav, the minister noted, 12 hits were recorded. Two men were killed. Another woman is injured, Ukrinform reports.

Last week, a woman was detained by Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, for sharing intelligence with Russia as part of a plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

According to a statement by the SBU released online on Monday, the woman "was preparing an enemy airstrike on Mykolaiv region" during Zelenskyy's recent visit.

The SBU said the woman, who was not publicly identified, was collecting information, including the time and a list of locations Zelenskyy planned to attend in the southern region, NBC reports.

A spokesperson for the SBU confirmed that Ukraine was said Zelenskyy was the target of the attack.

The SBU said that it learned of the alleged plot in time and that "additional security measures were taken during the visit."

Zelenskyy regularly moves around the country, visiting front lines and liberated cities, under strict security. In the early days of the war, he was thought to be a primary target for Moscow’s forces and the subject of a number of foiled assassination attempts.

The SBU’s statement said it continued to document the woman’s actions to learn more about her alleged Russian handlers and learned that she was also instructed to locate the Ukrainian army’s strategic assets near the town of Ochakiv in the Mykolaiv region, which the SBU claimed the Russians were planning to use to launch a massive airstrike on the region.

The woman was apprehended "red-handed" as she was trying to pass intelligence to the Russians, the statement said.

She was identified only as a resident of Ochakiv and a former military shop saleswoman. She faces up to 12 years in prison if she is convicted.