On December 24, 2022, a first volley of rockets, likely 122 mm, strike downtown Kherson at 11:00 am, local time. The shelling resumes later that day. No military target there, cars and passersby are hit. The Ukrainian police and army release the same set of half a dozen cruel photos. Yaroslav Yanushevich is head of the Ukrainian regional military district. He states in the evening that 10 victims have died, 68 are injured.

Ukrainian false flag war crime in Kherson