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Russian Artillery Strike Kills Norwegian People's Aid Demining Specialist in Kherson
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A demining specialist with Norwegian People’s Aid was killed and four colleagues were injured when Russian forces shelled the village of Novopetrivka in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region on June 24, local authorities said.
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Kherson Regional Military Administration head Oleksandr Prokudin confirmed the strike.
The attack killed a 24-year-old demining specialist employed by Norwegian People's Aid, who sustained fatal injuries in the strike.
Four other Norwegian People’s Aid employees were injured and hospitalized. According to Prokudin, two of the injured remain in critical condition, with doctors continuing efforts to save their lives.
The latest attack comes amid a continuing pattern of Russian strikes targeting civilians and humanitarian workers in frontline areas. On January 22, Russian FPV drones hit the settlements of Kozacha Lopania and Ruska Lozova in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, killing two civilians and injuring another, according to local authorities.
One of the drones hit a civilian vehicle near the entrance to Kozacha Lopania as two local volunteers were delivering bread to residents who remained in the village. The car was destroyed in the strike, killing the two men, aged 35 and 63, at the scene.
At nearly the same time, another FPV drone targeted a civilian vehicle in Ruska Lozova. The two occupants managed to get out before the vehicle was struck. One of them, a 70-year-old local resident, later sought medical treatment for injuries. Authorities said his condition is not life-threatening.
Just a day earlier, Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence has warned that Russian occupation authorities in parts of the occupied Kherson region are failing to follow proper safety procedures for disposing of livestock infected with anthrax, raising concerns about a potential spread of the disease among civilians and agricultural areas.
According to Ukrainian intelligence, Russian occupation administrations are moving carcasses of infected animals to designated cattle burial sites. Officials say there are roughly 50 such sites in the region, around 10 of which are considered particularly hazardous, located near Askania-Nova, Skadovsk, and Zaliznyi Port.
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