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Ukraine Debnuks Russian Claims Kyiv Staged Playground Strike That Killed Kherson Father and Injured Children
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Russia's occupation administration in Kherson has falsely accused Ukraine of staging the deadly strike on a children's playground that Russian forces themselves carried out.
Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation described the claim in a statement on May 28.
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Vladimir Saldo, the Russian-installed head of the temporarily occupied part of Kherson region, claimed that "the Kyiv regime staged a bloody provocation in Kherson." He also blamed Ukraine's Western backers, casting them as the "organizers of the strike."
The center dismissed the assertions as blatant falsehoods meant to shift responsibility for Russia's crimes against civilians onto Ukraine.
Kherson endures Russian attacks daily, with occupying forces systematically shelling residential districts and social infrastructure and hunting civilians with drones, it noted.
Russia continues to pair battlefield terror with disinformation campaigns designed to justify its own war crimes and manipulate public opinion, the center emphasized.
The strike that Saldo sought to disown had hit Kherson's Korabelnyi district on May 27, when multiple-launch rocket systems struck near a residential playground at around 5:30 p.m.
The barrage killed the father of a large family at the scene. His three-year-old daughter was left in extremely grave condition with shrapnel wounds while her six-year-old sister and their mother also suffered serious blast injuries.
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