Yuri Sobolevsky, deputy chairman of the regional council, said a missile hit a supermarket near the city’s Freedom Square.
“There were citizens, each going about their own lives, going about their own business,” he said, noting a girl selling phone SIM cards, others unloading goods from a truck, and passers-by.
Reuters was unable to independently verify the reports from Kherson.
Ukraine retook the city, Russia’s only regional capital since the 24 February invasion, in November. Since then, Kyiv says the Russian military has heavily shelled the city from across the vast Dnipro River.
‘Hit With Fearlessness’
Kirylo Tymoshenko, an aide to the Ukrainian president, said the attack came from a Grad multiple rocket launcher.
Another aide, Mykhailo Podolić, criticized those calling for Kyiv to hold peace talks with Russia, citing Moscow’s continued pounding of Ukraine’s power grid since October, which left millions without heat or water. Is.
“I would remind those who propose to take into account (Russian) ‘peace’ initiatives: right now Russia is ‘negotiating’, killing Kherson residents, wiping out Bakhmut, Kyiv/Odessa grid destroying, torturing civilians in Melitopol,” wrote Podolić.
“Russia wants impunity. Will we allow it?”
Yanushevich had earlier shared a message from the city’s blood bank calling for urgent donations.
According to Ukraine’s prime minister, Kyiv was still not recovering from the wave of missile attacks which cut the city’s power supply in half the next day.