Two more killed as Russian artillery keeps battering Ukraine’s Kherson region

Kherson is a strategic military region located on the Dnieper River (Alex Babenko/AP)

Russian shelling has killed an 81-year-old woman in the garden of her home and a 60-year-old man in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region, local authorities said.

The deaths were the latest civilian casualties in Moscow’s recent ramped-up bombardment of the area around the front line.