Kherson under bombardment again.. Moscow and Kiev exchange accusations of being responsible for the attack, and Washington describes it as brutal

The military administration in Kherson province announced that 10 people were killed and 55 others wounded in the renewed Russian bombing of several neighborhoods there, while a pro-Moscow official accused the Ukrainian forces of carrying out the attack "in an attempt to hold the Russian army responsible."

Yaroslav Yanushevich, head of the Ukrainian military administration in Kherson - located on the Black Sea in southern Ukraine - accused the Russian forces of targeting the area 74 times with artillery, rocket launchers, mortars and tanks.

He called on the residents to evacuate the district due to the continued Russian bombing and the continuous cuts of water and electricity, and said that the authorities would provide places for everyone who leaves the city, which is "facing real terrorism."

"kill for fun"

As for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, he published pictures of streets strewn with burning cars, smashed windows and corpses.

"Social networks will most likely put a signal that this footage is 'sensitive content', but this is not sensitive content but the real life of Ukraine and Ukrainians," he wrote, adding, "These are not military facilities... This is terrorism and killing for intimidation and fun."

For his part, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said that the bombing, which he described as brutal, was revenge on the city's residents for their resistance to the "occupation," adding that his country would be able to prevent such tragedies if it obtained long-range missiles and artillery.

In turn, the US ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, described the Russian attack on Kherson as "brutal".

Accusation of Kyiv

On the other hand, Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-appointed governor of the region, said that Kyiv had ordered the forces to bomb the city, and wrote via the Telegram application, "This is a disgusting provocation with the clear aim of holding the Russian armed forces responsible."

Ukraine retook the city in November, the only regional capital Russia has occupied since its invasion began on February 24. Since then, Kyiv says Russian forces have been shelling the city intensively across the Dnipro River.

battles in the east

In Donetsk, the pro-Russian authorities announced that Ukrainian forces targeted residential neighborhoods in the province, and these authorities broadcast video clips of what they said was the destruction of a Ukrainian observation post in the Dzerzhinsky region in the east of the country.

Also in the east of the country, Russian strikes are still continuing on Bakhmut, which the Russians have been trying to control since the summer, according to what the Ukrainian presidency announced on Saturday, noting that "the city center was bombed several times" the day before.

During the war, Ukraine expelled Russian forces from the areas surrounding its capital, Kyiv, and the second largest city, Kharkiv, and Moscow is currently focusing on sticking to the areas occupied by its forces in southern and eastern Ukraine, which represent about a fifth of the country's area.

Financial and military aid

On Friday, two days after President Zelensky's visit to Washington, the US Congress approved the draft federal budget, which includes $45 billion in aid to Ukraine.

Outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the passage of the budget, saying, "It's not charity like the president of Ukraine said. It's about security, it's about working together."

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte announced on Friday that Kyiv will receive a support package of 2.5 billion euros from the Netherlands in 2023, a large part of which will be military aid.