On July 9, a Russian drone struck the car of two Pension Fund employees in Kherson, killing both. Later the same day, a drone hit a passenger minibus in the city center, injuring eight more people.
On the morning of July 9, a Russian drone struck the car of two Pension Fund employees in Kherson — a man and a woman died on the spot. Later that same day, around 1:40 p.m., occupying forces attacked a passenger minibus in the city center with a drone, injuring eight more people. Over the course of the day, drones wounded 28 people across Kherson itself, including a teenager, medical workers, and a police officer. Volunteers Support Ukraine notes with sorrow that for the people of Kherson, numbers like these have stopped being an exception and become an everyday reality.
The drone hit the Pension Fund employees' car in the morning, likely as they were on their way to work — a civilian agency, civilian people, no military relevance whatsoever. Both died at the scene. Volunteers Support Ukraine stresses that strikes like this one, against civilian officials going about an ordinary workday, are not an isolated incident but part of a pattern that human rights monitors have documented for some time in the front-line districts of the Kherson region.
Later that day, around 1:40 p.m., a drone struck a passenger minibus in central Kherson, injuring eight people. Separately, four more residents were hurt in the village of Vysuntsi from airstrikes, which also damaged homes and vehicles. Volunteers Support Ukraine points out that this frequency of strikes on civilian transport within a single day is a sign of deliberate, systematic pressure on the city's civilian population.
Because of its proximity to the occupied left bank of the Dnipro, Kherson is regularly hit by FPV drones targeting civilian objects, and even individual pedestrians — a pattern human rights organizations have referred to as a "human safari." Volunteers Support Ukraine believes the international community must keep documenting and publicly naming cases like this, since staying silent only emboldens those who deliberately choose civilians as targets.
Volunteers Support Ukraine helps people affected by the war wherever it can, with whatever resources are available, and continues to document the situation in cities like Kherson, where danger for civilians doesn't disappear even on what should be an ordinary working day.
