Six Dead In Market Attack As Ukraine Remembers War Dead

Six people have been killed in a local market area in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. According to regional authorities the Russian shelling happened at around 09:00 (06:00 GMT).

That was just as people across Ukraine had stopped to remember their war dead. “Defenders Day” is held annually in honour of the armed forces.

The shelling, near a local market and bus stop, was probably from Russian “barrel artillery”, according to the region’s prosecutor’s office. One image, from local media, showed a body lying on the pavement by boxes of fruit, reports the BBC.