What happened in Kherson on 16 June 2023?
A look back at Russian attacks on civilians in Kherson, and at a deadly strike on Odesa two days earlier.
What happened in Kherson on 16 June 2023? Russian forces attacked the city, injuring 23 civilians and damaging infrastructure, according to reports from that day. The attack was part of the 2022–2023 bombing of Kherson.
Two days earlier, on 14 June 2023, a rocket attack on a residential area in Odesa killed at least three people and injured 13 others.
Taken together, the two reports show civilian areas in Ukraine's southern regions coming under fire within the space of a few days in mid-June 2023. In Kherson, the harm was both to people and to the infrastructure around them. In Odesa, the strike hit homes.
