Stories of Genocide: 23-29 December
A weekly bulletin of casualty reports from Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians, organized by date and location.
Photo: Ihor Klymenko
23 December
Donetsk Oblast
Photos: National Police
According to the National Police and Governor Vadym Filashkin, one civilian was killed and two others were injured in Russian shelling in Kostyantynivka.
Kharkiv Oblast
The Kharkiv Oblast Police reports that in Dvorichna, a 66-year-old man suffered explosive injuries from a Russian FPV drone strike and was hospitalized. The village has come under Russian assault as they make attempts to advance north of Kupiansk.
Kherson Oblast
Photos: Kherson Police
In Beryslav, a 55-year-old local resident was killed in a Russian drone strike. In Antonivka, a 59-year-old man suffered a mine-explosive injury and shrapnel wound to his leg from a Russian UAV dropping explosives. In Kizomys, a 65-year-old man was injured by an enemy drone and hospitalized. Additionally, according to the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, a 57-year-old man in Kherson sustained a blast injury and shrapnel wounds to his leg from a drone attack.
Zaporizhzhia Oblast
According to Governor Ivan Fedorov, a Russian airstrike on Stepnohirsk in Vasylivskyi district resulted in injuries to a woman and damage to a five-story building and a one-story house which caught fire.
24 December
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Video: State Emergency Service
On Christmas Eve, a Russian missile strike hit an apartment building in central Kryvyi Rih. Initial reports indicated six injuries, but the toll increased throughout the day. The final update from the State Emergency Service confirmed one person was killed and seventeen others injured. Up to four victims were rescued from the rubble and treated for crush injuries, according to Governor Lysak.
Video: National Police
Injured victims included 14 and 16-year-old girls, women aged 42, 53, 60, 65, 65, 69, and 72, men aged 87, 78, 37, and a boy aged 18, according to Oleksandr Vilkul and Governor Serhii Lysak. Other victims’ identities were not disclosed in open sources.
Oleksandr Vilkul also reported that a 31-year-old man was injured from Russian shelling of the hromadas along the Dnipro River in Nikopolskyi Raion.
Donetsk Oblast
According to Governor Filashkin, one person was injured in Pokrovsk, one person was killed in Kostyantynivka, and one person was injured in Siversk, and one civilian was killed by Russian forces in Udachne.
Kharkiv Oblast
According to Governor Oleh Syniehubov, three men were injured and hospitalized following a Russian kamikaze drone strike in the Saltivskyi district.
Kherson Oblast
According to the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, a 41-year-old man and a 48-year-old man were wounded by a Russian drone strike in Beryslav. The Kherson Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported a 72-year-old man was killed by a Russian drone attack in Kherson's Dniprovskyi Raion.
Russian shelling injured a 49-year-old man in Kherson and a 68-year-old man in Komyshany.
25 December
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Photo: Ministry of Energy
DTEK energy company reported that Dmytro Petlenko, a 51-year-old DTEK energy worker and boiler-turbine department machinist at a thermal power plant, was killed during a Russian missile attack on the Prydniprovska Thermal Power Plant on Christmas Day.
Kharkiv Oblast
Photos: Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office
In Novoosynove, Kupiansk district, the National Police and Governor Syniehubov reported that a 53-year-old woman was killed in a Russian multiple rocket launcher strike.
Russian forces bombarded Kharkiv city with ground-attack modified air-defense missile systems and air-launched cruise missiles. The Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office and National Police reported that at least ten enemy hits were recorded, with S-400 missiles striking Saltivskyi district and Kh-35 missiles hitting Nemyshlyanskyi Raion injuring five men and one woman.
Kherson Oblast
According to the Kherson Oblast Police and Kherson ODA, a 51-year-old man and a 40-year-old man were injured by two incidents of Russian shelling on the town of Inzhenerne.
26 December
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
The National Police and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported that a Russian FPV drone attacked a market in Nikopol, resulting in eight injuries. Four people sustained severe injuries and four others received shrapnel wounds. All injured were hospitalized.
Donetsk Oblast
According to the Donetsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office, in Chasiv Yar, two men aged 60 and 64 were killed, and a 27-year-old and 55-year-old were injured when Russian forces attacked a multi-story building using an FPV drone. Additionally, Governor Filashkin reported one civilian was also killed in Novoekonomichne near Pokrovsk.
Kharkiv Oblast
Photos: State Emergency Services
According to the National Police, Russian forces dropped three guided aerial bombs, killing a 67-year-old civilian man and injuring two 73-year-old men. In Zolochiv, Russian guided aerial bombs damaged four private houses and agricultural facilities, injuring a 41-year-old civilian man. Later, another airstrike on Zolochiv, reported by the State Emergency Services, killed a 64-year-old man and injured a 53-year-old woman. According to the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office, a Russian FPV drone injured a 49-year-old woman in Dvorichna, Kupiansk Raion, which is increasingly under Russian assault.
Kherson Oblast
Video: Kherson Police
According to the Kherson ODA, Russian artillery shelling across Kherson Oblast injured a 48-year-old man in Dariivka, a 70-year-old woman in Bilozerka (wounded on 19 December), a 42-year-old man in Komyshany, and an 83-year-old woman (shown in the video above) in Beryslav.
In Dniprovskyi Raion, a drone attack injured a 75-year-old woman and a 76-year-old man.
Sumy Oblast
The Sumy Oblast Military Administration reported that Russian forces attacked Krasnopillia via mortar shelling, FPV drone attacks, drone-dropped munitions, a KAB glide bomb, and artillery shelling. One civilian was killed and a private house was destroyed.
27 December
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
According to Governor Lysak, during an evening attack with drones and artillery on Myrivska hromada, Nikopolskyi Raion, a 43-year-old woman was injured.
Donetsk Oblast
Video: State Emergency Service
The State Emergency Service and Vadym Filashkin reported that two women, ages 68 and 85, were injured during daily Russian shelling of Pokrovsk. Rescuers provided first aid and transported them to Rodynske for further medical attention.
Kharkiv Oblast
According to the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office, a 58-year-old man in Ridkodub, Kupiansk Raion, was injured by Russian artillery shelling.
Kherson Oblast
According to the Kherson ODA, Russian drone attacks in Kherson injured a 60-year-old man in the city, a 51-year-old man in Bilozerka, and a 35-year-old man was injured on 20 December in Burhunka.
A 42-year-old man was injured in artillery shelling on Bilozerka, while a 65-year-old woman suffered blast injuries from Russian artillery in Komyshany.
Sumy Oblast
Photos: State Emergency Service
The State Emergency Service reported rescue teams recovering the body of a homeowner killed in a Russian attack in an unspecified region of Sumy Oblast.
Later, the Sumy Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported Russian forces shelled Krasnopilska hromada, injuring a 77-year-old woman who was hospitalized.
28 December
Donetsk Oblast
Photos: National Police
The National Police and Governor Filashkin reported that Russian forces shelled Kotlyne, killing one civilian.
Kharkiv Oblast
According to the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office, a man was killed by drone-dropped munitions in Dvorichna, Kupiansk Raion.
Kherson Oblast
Photos: Kherson Police
The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that thirteen residents were injured in Russian shelling and drone attacks across Kherson Oblast.
Kherson Police reported that a Russian drone attacked two civilian cars, injuring a 57-year-old driver and a 65-year-old man in Dniprovskyi Raion, while a 38-year-old man was injured by a drone in Antonivka.
According to reports from Governor Oleksandr Prokudin, the Kherson Oblast Prosecutor's Office, the Kherson Police, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, ten civilians were injured in a massive barrage on the town of Bilozerka. Among the injured was a 21-year-old man, a 51-year-old man, a 52-year-old man, a 49-year-old man, a 13-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl, a 16-year-old boy, a 43-year-old woman, a 62-year-old woman, and one woman without a specified age.
29 December
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Video: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Police
A Russian FPV drone strike on a gas station in Marhanets, Nikopol district wounded three people according to the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office. The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Police and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Security Police specified that a 77-year-old man sustained severe shrapnel wounds, while a 65-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman were also injured. According to Governor Lysak, two victims remain hospitalized while one was not hospitalized.
Donetsk Oblast
According to Governor Filashkin and the National Police, Russian forces killed and injured one civilian in Pokrovsk and injured one other civilian in Kostyantynivka.
Kharkiv Oblast
The Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor's Office reports that around 3:00 AM, Russian forces shelled the village of Zahryzove in Borivska hromada, Izium Raion. Two civilians, a 63-year-old man and a 65-year-old woman, were injured and taken to the hospital.
According to the Kharkiv Oblast Prosecutor’s Office and Governor Syniehubov, a 40-year-old man was attacked by a Russian drone while riding a moped in Petropavlivka, Kupiansk Raion.
Kherson Oblast
Photos: Kherson Police
According to the Kherson ODA and Kherson Police, drone attacks killed a 55-year-old man in Tiahynka, and injured a 40-year-old woman in Stanislav, and a 62-year-old husband and wife in Antonivka.
Kherson ODA also reported a 62-year-old man was injured in Dniprovskyi Raion in Kherson by Russian artillery shelling.
Mykolaiv Oblast
Chornomorska hromada was attacked by Shahed 131/136 kamikaze drones. An unused building was hit and a 49-year-old man was injured, according to Governor Vitaly Kim.
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