On the morning of 13 August 2023, Russia killed seven people in south-Ukrainian Kherson Oblast, informed the head of Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ihor Klymenko.

In particular, Russian shelling killed the entire family, with a 12-year-old son and a newborn daughter, in Shyroka Balka village, located on the Dnipro coast 10 km from Russian positions. Their daughter was only 23 days old. Their son was initially hospitalized in difficult conduction, but unfortunately, doctors couldn’t help. 

Also, the shelling killed one more local resident in Shyroka Balka and two more men in the next village of Stanislaviv. 

Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office Andriy Yermak clarified that Russian troops fired on Stanislaviv village from MLRS, destroying five houses there.