Russia on Monday resumed attacks on Ukraine's Kherson region, after the end of a local ceasefire in the area, the longest truce in the war raging between the neighbors since 2022, Kyiv said.
A rare pause in fighting, brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump, ended on Sunday after starting on Tuesday. The ceasefire enabled a humanitarian mission to the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky and for hundreds of stranded citizens to leave, AFP said.
It was the longest pause in fighting between the neighbors in the war -- now in its fifth year -- which has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced millions.
"At around 8:00 am this morning, Russian occupiers attacked a car with a drone in the Korabelny city district" of Kherson, local authorities said in a statement, adding that a 62-year-old woman and 73-year-old man were wounded and hospitalized.
Russia refused a Ukrainian offer to extend the truce, a senior Ukrainian figure told AFP on Sunday.
Kherson's regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin had warned local people to be particularly vigilant when the ceasefire ended.
Ukraine's military alleged Russia used the pause in fighting to "fortify its positions".
Russian attacks also killed one person in Izium, a city in the country's north-eastern Kharkiv region, the local governor there said.
US-mediated talks between Russia and Ukraine are set to resume this month.
The Kremlin has repeatedly rejected calls for a wider ceasefire and said it intends to press on with its full-scale offensive to seize the rest of eastern Ukraine.
