Russian proxies claim Ukrainian strike on occupied Skadovsk in Kherson Oblast.

Ukrainian forces allegedly launched two missiles against occupied Skadovsk in the Russian-held part of Kherson Oblast on Nov.

9, the Russia-installed proxy head of the oblast, Volodymyr Saldo, claimed. Saldo alleged that the missiles were launched at around 10 a.m. One of them was shot down by air defenses, but the other missile hit the city, he wrote on his Telegram channel.

Saldo claimed that 11 people were injured as a result of the attack, and several houses were allegedly damaged. According to the Ukrainian news outlet Suspilne Kherson, explosions were heard by the city's residents on the morning of Nov.

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Petro Andriushchenko, an adviser to the exiled Mariupol mayor, reported a hit at a building of a former collective farm, "Radianska Ukraina." Russian authorities block access to the site of the impact, he added. The National Resistance Center said that according to as of yet unconfirmed information, the attack targeted a temporary facility of the Russian FSB security service. The Kyiv Independent could not verify the claims.

The seaside city of Skadovsk, with a pre-war population of around 17,000 some 60 kilometers south of Kherson, has been occupied by Russian forces since March 2022.

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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.