Russian Glide Bombs Strike Kherson, Killing 1, Injuring 22
Russian tactical aircraft dropped eight guided aerial bombs on the Korabelnyi district of Kherson on Saturday, Oct. 17, killing an emergency ambulance driver, injuring 22 people – including a one-month-old infant and an 11-year-old child – and damaging 10 residential high-rises.
A Russian guided aerial bomb strike in Kherson's Korabelnyi district on Saturday morning killed one emergency medical worker and injured 27 civilians, including a one-month-old infant and an 11-year-old child. Head of the Kherson City Military Administration, Yaroslav Shanko, reported that Russian tactical aviation launched eight KABs during two consecutive strikes within an hour.
The secondary strike occurred as medics arrived to provide first aid, resulting in the death of an ambulance driver and injury to another female medical worker. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine confirmed that the bombardment damaged 10 multi-story residential buildings, igniting fires and trapping residents under collapsed structures.
Rescuers extracted seven injured individuals from the rubble and treated 22 others at the scene and in regional hospitals. Engineering brigades and civil defense units assessed the structural damage across the affected buildings. The incident occurred shortly after a series of Russian strikes across multiple Ukrainian regions, targeting civilians and municipal infrastructure.
Notable strikes included Russian aircraft dropping FAB-250 bombs in Sloviansk, killing one civilian and injuring 10 others, as well as a large-scale assault on Vinnytsia region. Ukrainian air defenses successfully intercepted and neutralized a majority of the incoming aerial threats, but the coordinated attack resulted in several civilian casualties across Ukraine.
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