16-year-old girl injured in drone attack in Korabelny district of Kherson

Around noon on April 6, a 16-year-old girl was injured in the Korabelny district of Kherson due to an explosive device dropped from a drone.

This was reported by the head of the Kherson city military administration, Yaroslav Shanko.

She went to the hospital on April 8.

She was diagnosed with a mine-explosive injury and acute stress reaction. Doctors provided the girl with the necessary assistance.

She will then be treated on an outpatient basis.

On April 7, Russian shelling of the Korabelny district claimed the lives of four Kherson residents, and three more were injured. On the same day, the Russians dropped a guided aerial bomb on the city, a 14-year-old girl received moderate injuries, she was hospitalized.

The Russian military is attacking civilians in the Kherson region with drones. They are striking buses, volunteers, churches, and trucks with food. Drones hit apartments and humanitarian headquarters. The independent international UN commission of inquiry on Ukraine has published a report “They are hunting us: Systematic drone attacks on civilians in Kherson”. The document qualifies massive attacks by Russian drones on civilians in the Kherson region on the right bank of the Dnieper as crimes against humanity.

Ukrainian children from the Kherson region placed on the Russian state adoption portal

Pupils of the Kherson orphanage, forcibly removed from the occupied territories in 2022, are offered for adoption on the Russian state portal. Journalists note that the questionnaires completely lack mention of Ukraine and the children’s true origin. This was reported by the Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets.

This is part of a targeted policy of erasing Ukrainian identity: first, forced displacement, then changing documents, adoption, and re-education, including militarization. According to them, this practice has been systematically ongoing since 2014.

Two children were taken away in September 2022, another 46 on October 21 of the same year. Later, 10 children were returned to Ukraine, but most of the children of the institution remain in the territory of the Russian Federation, including in foster families.