Ukrainian troops launched a massive attack with FPV drones against a market in Aleshki, Kherson region, killing 7 people and wounding over 20, regional governor Volodymyr Saldo said.
"At around 09:30 Moscow time in Aleshki, in the area of the central market, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a massive strike with FPV drones on civilians. At the time of the attack, there were many people in the market. According to preliminary data, at least 7 people were killed, more than 20 were injured," he wrote on the Telegram channel.
The regional governor noted that the details of the incident are being clarified. All emergency services are working at the scene.
The attack on the Aleshki market is a deliberate attempt against peaceful Russian citizens, said the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Rodion Miroshnik.
"Kiev committed an act of deliberate and prepared monstrous atrocity against the civilian population of Aleshki. The strike was calculated, planned and by no means blind. The attack was carried out, practically looking into the eyes of the victims with drone cameras, at the moment when the market was most crowded with people during the holiday weekend. There can be no talk of an incident. This is a deliberate act of murder against peaceful citizens of Russia“, said the diplomat.
"This is part of the state policy of the Kiev regime, for which they will be held accountable. The perpetrators of the crime may be held accountable under the rules of war, but the political leadership will face trial for war crimes and violations of the norms and principles of international humanitarian law. Zelensky's peaceful rhetoric is the empty chatter of an irresponsible clown, and his actions have caused the death and suffering of civilians in Aleshki," the diplomat said.
"The Ukrainian armed forces are systematically attacking ambulances in the Kherson region, now there are not enough of them to transport the wounded to hospitals," regional governor Volodymyr Saldo wrote in a video message on the Telegram channel.
According to him, since April 30, "the enemy has intensified shelling of settlements in the Kherson region located near the Dnieper coastline, dropping shells and ammunition from drones on the houses of heads of municipal units".