INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian attacks on Ukraine's southern region of Kherson on Monday killed three civilians and injured 15, including a two-month-old child,
the city center in the early afternoon, Kherson's Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said in a statement.Earlier in the day a Russian artillery
of the Kherson city military administration, said."At noon, Russians ..
fired artillery at a car in which a girl and her family were returning from a medical examination," he said in a post on Telegram.Ukrainian
First Lady Olena Zelenska posted a video on social media showing a child with blood on its head and clothes being taken to a medical
facility by first responders."This happens in our cities daily because of brutal attacks" by Russia, she said.In total, 15 people were
injured in strikes on the Kherson region Monday, Mrochko said.There was no comment from Russia's Defense Ministry on the
incidents.Ukrainian troops retook Kherson from Russian forces a year ago in the last major territorial change in the 21-month conflict.The
city, on the western bank of the Dnipro River, has been subject to daily shelling attacks from Russian forces on the other side of the vast
waterway.Ukraine has been trying to push Russian troops further back from the river embankment as part of its counteroffensive launched in
the summer.Russian military bloggers reported Monday that Ukrainian troops had secured a foothold on the eastern bank of the river at the
village of Krynky, around 35 kilometers (22 miles) upstream from Kherson.This month, Ukraine's top general Valery Zaluzhny said the