Six dead in market attack as Ukraine remembers war dead

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Six ***** in market ******* as Ukraine remembers war *****

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The ******* on central Kherson left six people ***** – a police photo blurred one of the victims

Six people have been ******* 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 *****.

“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.

Moscow has repeatedly denied targeting civilians.

Initial reports said seven had ***** doctors were able to save one person who had been “considered *****”.

Kherson was occupied by Russian troops shortly after Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and was liberated by Ukraine in November.

It still ***** extremely close to the frontline with fierce fighting on the other side of the Dnipro River.

It was at 08:55 on Tuesday that people in Kyiv and throughout Ukraine observed a10-minute silence for Defenders Day.

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A small crowd remembered Ukraine’s fallen soldiers on Tuesday in Maidan Square in Kyiv

A small crowd had gathered at a memorial site on Maidan Square in Kyiv.

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, thousands of Ukrainian flags have been planted here alongside framed pictures of fallen soldiers.

Halyna’s 29 year old son, Kostyantyn, was ******* fighting in the Kherson region in July 2022.

“He was a platoon leader, a junior lieutenant,” Halyna told the BBC, clinging on to a photo of him, holding back tears.

“He was a very nice guy. His comrades came recently and told how he fought and how he *****. It’s very hard for me.”

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Among those being remembered in Maidan Square was Halyna’s son Kostyantyn

As the silence began, we watched as cars stopped in the middle of a busy road and people stood solemnly in the streets in a moment that felt charged with emotion, sorrow and intense national pride.

Soon, the sound of the Ukrainian national anthem could be heard echoing through the still streets.

It was at around that time that the strike on Kherson city took place in southern Ukraine.

Separately, 21 people have reportedly been wounded due to Russian glide ****** hitting residential and industrial areas in the city of Zaporizhzhia.

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Russian glide ****** hit two districts in the regional capital Zaporizhzia

On the front line in Ukraine’s east, Russian troops continue to press hard and Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin has said they have almost reached the centre of the town of Vuhledar.

Just 107 people are said to remain in the bombed out town with children already evacuated and humanitarian aid “almost impossible” to deliver – according to Filashkin.

As part of Defenders Day, President Volodymyr Zelensky paid tribute to those who had been ******* in the fighting, saying: “You sacrifice yourselves so that Ukraine does not have to be sacrificed.”

Yuliya’s partner, Bogdan, served as an army medic treating people during the devastating siege of Mariupol before he was captured by Russian troops.

“I have a daughter, she’s five years old so I think she helps me a lot because she’s my sense now to live. I need to be strong. And I need to be now a mother and a father in one person.”

Bogdan was one of dozens who ***** in the

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, which Kyiv believes was a deliberate attempt by Russia to ******** evidence of war ******* although Moscow blamed Ukrainian missiles.

For countless Ukrainian families, remembrance is a private act, as well as a public one.

Yuliya says she wants to her daughter to remember her father: “What he did for us and everything we have now is because of him. He was protecting us.”

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