Russia attacks hospital in Beryslav in Kherson Oblast, injures 2.

A Russian strike against Beryslav in Kherson Oblast damaged a hospital and injured two medical workers, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported on Oct.

5. The victims were an ambulance driver, who suffered a leg fracture, and a paramedic, who suffered a concussion, the official said. Prokudin said that the hospital building sustained a "direct hit," after which the fourth floor was completely destroyed, and another floor was partially damaged.

Several ambulances were also damaged in the attack, he added. Less than an hour before reporting on the hospital strike, Prokudin said that Beryslav, a town at the Dnipro River's right bank roughly 70 kilometers east of Kherson, had been targeted by five Russian air strikes. Partially occupied Kherson Oblast suffers regular Russian attacks as the invading troops continue to hold the left-bank side of the Dnipro River in the region.

The regional center Kherson was targeted earlier today in an artillery strike, resulting in two dead civilians and one injured.

Russia's southern mistake -- Surovikin lines, Gerasimov tactics The Zaporizhzhia front has been abuzz with news of Ukrainians breaking through Russia's first defensive line and chiseling away at a breach in the second. "They're widening that breach at this stage to enable the flow of armored vehicles and logistics so they can exploit it," Michael Kofman,

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Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press.

He also volunteers as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukrainer.

Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.