Three people were injured as a result of Russian shelling of Kherson region - an elderly couple in the Dniprovsky district of Kherson and a 42-year-old man in the village of Komyshany.
Russian forces have been remotely scattering "hedgehog" traps on roads in Kherson, designed to puncture vehicle tires. After a car hits one of these traps and stops to replace the damaged wheel, drones armed with explosives are deployed to attack.
The Russian Ministry of Defense sent a commission to the 1196th Motorized Rifle Regiment, stationed in the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region, because of suicides and sabotage of personnel against boats.
On the morning of Friday, December 20, Russian troops fired about a thousand shells at Kherson, damaging educational and medical institutions, the railway station, private and multi-storey buildings.
Minister of Education and Science Oksen Lisovyi, during a working visit to the Kherson region, checked on the construction of underground schools in Mala Oleksandrivka, Bila Krynytsia and Vysokopillia.
Russian troops dropped explosives from a drone on a civilian pensioner in the central district of Kherson. The man was taken to hospital with injuries.
The Russian forces shelled the village of Novooleksandrivka in Kherson region with artillery. A 65-year-old woman was injured as a result of the explosions.