In Ukraine’s battered front-line city of Kherson, civilians are increasingly living underground as Russia’s drone attacks escalate in frequency and brutality, with local officials and international observers calling the assaults deliberate targeting of noncombatants, The Hill reported.

The city of Kherson has become a tormenting case study of modern warfare as Russian drone attacks turn daily life into a deadly gamble. Now forced underground, essential services in the city are operating from bombproof basements to shield residents from nearly constant bombardment.

“They are killing ordinary civilian people, just elderly people, children, those who are waiting at the bus stop — they are killing them, they are taking videos of that, and they are putting them online on their Telegram channels,” said Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration.

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