A resident has been killed in an early morning air attack on Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, the local governor says.

Oleksandr Prokudin said the guided aerial bomb was dropped on a residential area of the city of Beryslav on Wednesday morning.

“Unfortunately, a 42-year-old man was fatally wounded,” Prokudin said on the Telegram messaging app.

Kyiv drove Russian forces out of part of the Kherson region last November after several months of occupation, but Russian troops have continued shelling the regional capital and areas around it from across the Dnipro River.

Prokudin said over the past 24 hours, Russian forces had carried out 35 aerial attacks on the Kherson region.

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In the Khmelnytskyi region of western Ukraine, falling debris from an intercepted Russian drone injured 16 people, the deputy head of the regional administration.

“In the Shepetivka district, the shooting down of air targets caused them to fall into the territory of a critical infrastructure facility,” Serhiy Tyurin said on Telegram on Wednesday.

He said there was an explosion that damaged an administrative building as well as residential buildings and cars. Sixteen people from surrounding buildings were injured.

Russia launched 11 kamikaze drones at Ukraine during the night, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Wednesday morning. All of them were shot down.

With Western help, Ukraine has been fending off a full-scale Russian invasion for 20 months.

For the past year Russia has also regularly attacked civilian targets with missiles and drones. The targets are often energy, heat and water-supply facilities for the population.

Shoigu inspection

Meanwhile, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected command posts of Russian troops in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, his ministry said on Wednesday.

Shoigu told assembled servicemen their efforts were giving Ukrainian forces “fewer and fewer opportunities”.

Ukraine in June undertook a counteroffensive, capturing villages in the east and south, but at a much slower pace than its rapid advance through the north-east a year ago.

Ukraine says Russian forces in recent days have been pounding the eastern city of Avdiivka but have sustained heavy losses.

Video footage published by the ministry showed Shoigu disembarking from a helicopter before engaging in discussions with senior military personnel.

Shoigu was informed of Russian troops’ training improvements with drones, the ministry said.

He stressed that commanders should ensure that troops have new winter uniforms and insulated footwear as colder weather sets in.

-Reuters, with dpa