Russian shelling of Ukraine's southern region of Kherson overnight has killed at least one person and injured six, including two children, the regional governor has said.
Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said Russian forces had launched 71 attacks in the past 24 hours, "aimed at the residential districts", as well as shops and medical infrastructure, among other establishments.
Twenty of the air and land attacks targeted the city of Kherson, the region's administrative district, the governor added, while authorities promptly doused a fire sparked by shelling early this morning.
Reuters could not independently verify the report. There was no immediate comment from Russia.
Kyiv drove Russian forces out of part of the Kherson region last November after several months of occupation, but Russian troops have continued shelling the regional capital and areas around it from across the Dnipro River.
US support for Ukraine is not weakening - Kuleba
Ukraine's top diplomat has said Washington's support for Kyiv is not weakening and played down the significance of a stopgap funding bill passed by US Congress that omitted aid to Ukraine.
US and other Western military assistance has been vital for Ukraine to fight back against the full-scale invasion launched by Russia in February 2022.
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Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Kyiv was in talks with Republicans and Democrats in the US Congress, and that the drama around the stopgap bill that averted a government shutdown on Saturday was an "incident" rather than something systemic.
"We don't feel that the US support has been shattered...because the United States understands that what is at stake in Ukraine is much bigger than just Ukraine," he told reporters as he greeted European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell before a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Kyiv.
"It's about the stability and predictability of the world and therefore I believe we will be able to find necessary solutions."
Mr Kuleba said the question was whether what happened in the US Congress at the weekend was "an incident or a system".
"I think it was an incident," he said. "We have a very in-depth discussion with both parts of the Congress - Republicans and Democrats. And against the background of the potential shutdown, the decision was taken as it was.
"But we are now working with both sides of the Congress to make sure that it does not (get) repeat(ed) again under any circumstances," he said.
