Russia launched two back-to-back glide bomb strikes on the key city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Thursday, June 5, causing heavy damage to the Regional Administration building.
Knewz.com has learned that the glide bomb attack came within days of two successful Ukrainian strikes on President Vladimir Putin’s military capabilities—the drone assault dubbed “Operation Spiderweb,” and an attack on the Kerch Bridge in Crimea.
The first strike occurred in the morning, when Russian aircraft dropped four guided aerial bombs on central Kherson.
According to reports, the attack damaged the regional administration building, destroyed the entrance to a nearby residential building, and shattered hundreds of windows in surrounding structures, including three educational institutions.
Two elderly individuals, aged 74 and 68, were injured in the first glide bomb attack. According to reports, four individuals were rescued from the basement of the damaged administration building.
Kherson regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin reported the attack on Telegram, where he wrote:
“This is what downtown Kherson looks like today. In just fifteen minutes, four Russian KAB guided bombs struck this area. The strikes caused even greater destruction to the Kherson Regional State Administration (RSA) building, which had already been repeatedly targeted by the Russians. An apartment building entrance was also destroyed, and surrounding buildings suffered shattered windows and damaged facades.”
The regional administration building became the target of a second glide bomb attack that very afternoon, leaving it partially destroyed, according to reports.
Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umierov shared a statement about the second attack, saying: “Russia has launched a second strike on the centre of Kherson, completely destroying the building of Kherson Oblast State Administration. The first attack, which damaged the building, took place in the morning.”
Governor Prokudin reported that the information on casualties is currently being clarified.
Yurii Sobolevskyi, first deputy head of the Kherson Regional Council, sustained a concussion and blast trauma during the initial attack and called the strike “pure terrorism.” However, he refused hospitalization.
“I’m fine, everything’s okay, no shrapnel wounds. I declined hospitalization because I had a work trip scheduled for today and I’m not going to change my plans. I’ll get treatment on the go,” he said in a statement to reporters.
“Pure terrorism! The building hasn’t been in use for a long time and has been repeatedly targeted by enemy shelling. It is not a decision-making center — neither military nor civilian. The orcs just needed a flashy image — nothing more. The fact that there are residential apartment buildings nearby does not concern them. First, they hit with “KABs” (guided aerial bombs), and then added artillery and drones,” Sobolevskyi wrote on Telegram.
The June 5 bombings in Kherson coincided with a series of Russian airstrikes across Ukraine, including a drone attack in Pryluky that killed five people. The casualties include a one-year-old child, his mother, and his grandmother.
The child killed was the grandson of the local fire chief, 50-year-old Oleksandr Lebid, according to Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko.
The mother of the 1-year-old killed in Pryluky was a police officer called Daryna Shyhyda, according to the National Police of Ukraine.
The drone strike involved six Shahed attack UAVs that struck a residential area in the city shortly before dawn, injuring nine others, according to authorities.
“Today our hearts are scorched by pain… This is not just a loss — it is three generations of life uprooted,” the Ukrainian National Police wrote on Telegram.
It has been reported that the last time Pryluky was struck was in November 2024, when a Russian missile hit an administrative building and injured one person. It is worth noting that the city is located 60 miles east of Kyiv, and is “far from the front line and does not contain any known military assets.”
The series of Russian strikes across Ukraine came hours after President Donald Trump had a telephonic conversation with President Putin, during which the Russian autocrat reportedly warned of strong retaliation for “Operation Spiderweb”—the most extensive and far-reaching Ukrainian drone attack to date.
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