Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region: five people killed following shelling of village Kamyanka

Head of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region administration Oleksandr Starukh said in a message on his Telegram channel that five people had been killed following the night shelling of the village Kamyanka; three of them were a mother and her two children, aged two and eight.

Starukh claims that there were six rounds of shelling, all of them conducted from the occupied territory and striking exclusively against residential buildings. One of the projectiles, according to Starukh, hit a four-storey building where a 29-year-old Anastasiya Borovik lived with her two young children. The head of the administration also said, citing local residents, that there could be people trapped in the rubble.

The Zaporizhzhia region was not the only one to be shelled in the early hours of 27 August. Mayor of Kharkiv Ihor Terekhov said on his Telegram channel that the Osnovianskyi and Kyivskyi districts of the city had been shelled. According to the mayor, there are no victims, but a historic building and a school were damaged.

The head of the Dnipro region Valentyn Reznichenko also reported that the region had been shelled. According to him, the Russian army used heavy artillery to strike against the Nikopolskyi district seven times and the Kryvyi Rih district three times. There are no victims. Still, as a result of the shelling, “ten residential buildings, an education centre, and power lines have been damaged” in the city of Nikopol. According to Reznichenko, “5,000 families remained without electricity.”

The Russian side has not yet commented on the attacks.