Traffic accident in central china. just one person was killed but many were injured. air raid sirens have sounded across all of ukraine, with civilians being asked to stay in shelters amid reports of russian jets taking off from an airbase in belarus. russia has also stepped up mortar and artillery attacks on kherson, a port city in southern ukraine. kherson is often called the gateway to crimea and, because of its strategic importance, it was one of the first places taken by russian forces at the start of the war. it was liberated last month in a significant gain for ukrainian troops. but civilians are now living with a daily onslaught of russian shelling. our correspondent, hugo bachega, sent this report from kyiv. tears in kherson.
And kris janowski who is the spokesperson for the un human rights mission. if you google civilian casualties in ukraine, you get so many different figures, and they vary by thousands. how has this figure been arrived at? this figure is a very conservative figure, actually, if any low estimate, i would say. we are only issuing reports about confirmed figures, 100% confirmed by us. but we always put a word of caution in, saying this figure is actually very low probably compared to the real figure which may be much higher. it is worth remembering that we have had no access to some of the ns by the fighting has been the heaviest, such as mariupol, or more recently kherson. we re not doing the situation in those areas or many other areas of your treatment to which we have no access whatsoever.
Been relentless. it doesn t stop even for the dead. natalia was in her flat when a shell hit. she was a7. ukraine s advance pushed russian forces out of kherson. they are now on the other side of the dnipro river, from where they ve been pounding the city, day and night. in the last 2a hours, more than 30 missiles were fired at civilian targets. this was one of the places hit. the maternity ward of a hospital. luckily, no one was killed. the road leading out of the city used to be clearjust days ago. now, it s full of families fleeing. we stayed all this time but when the home next to ours was hit, we became scared , this woman says. the danger is not only kherson.
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