Moscow’s forces say Ukrainian missile kills two in Russian-held village

A Ukrainian missile attack on a Russian-held village in southern Ukraine killed two people, Moscow’s occupying authorities in the Kherson region said on Saturday.

Moscow’s forces said the missile hit the village of Nova Mayachka, on the Russian-occupied bank of the Dnipro River and located some 70 kilometers (40 miles) east of the Ukrainian-held city of Kherson.

“Two civilians were killed. Two other (civilians) were wounded,” Moscow-appointed official Vladimir Saldo said.

A US-made HIMARS missile hit in the village of Nova Mayachka “during the delivery of humanitarian aid,” according to Saldo.
Other missiles, which he said were launched by Kyiv, had been downed by air defense.

Military personnel helping to deliver the aid had also been wounded.

“The wounded have been given the necessary medical help and emergency services are working at the scene,” he said.
Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine has dragged on for nearly two years.

The front has barely moved in southern and eastern Ukraine for months.