Three people wounded in overnight drone attack on Kherson, video shows moment hospital is struck
First Deputy Head of the Patrol Police Department Oleksiy Biloshytskyi posted a video on his Telegram channel from the body camera of one of the patrol police officers who was in a hospital in Kherson when it was hit overnight on Dec. 15-16 by a Shahed attack drone.
The video shows two explosions. After the first one, the patrol policeman, whose camera was used to record the video, goes out into the hospital yard to see the aftermath. He states that the windows in the building were blown out due to the blast wave. Then, another Shahed UAV falls directly into the hospital yard.
"During the evacuation of patients to the bomb shelter, a doctor of the medical institution was injured," Biloshytskyi said in the video caption.
“He was diagnosed with an explosive injury and a shrapnel wound to the shin.”
The explosion damaged the patrol police car, but there were no "losses among the personnel," the first deputy head of the Patrol Police Department stated.
Russia’s nighttime drone attack also targeted residential areas and an educational institution in the southern Ukrainian city.
During the overnight attacks in Kherson, a 55-year-old man sustained injuries to his limbs and a 55-year-old man suffered shrapnel wounds to his head, said regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin.
There were also hits near an infrastructure facility, the premises of which were damaged.
"In Stepanivka (a suburb of Kherson — ed.), shells fell near a medical facility," Prokudin wrote.
“A doctor who was at his workplace was injured. The occupiers attacked Dariyivka with Shaheds. Fortunately, there were no victims.”
The Telegram channel of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration published a video from the grounds of the hospital in Stepanivka that came under fire.
The wreckage of a downed Shahed caused the destruction of one of the hospital buildings.
The head of the Kherson City Military Administration published a photo of the damaged hospital.
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