Three civilians killed, six wounded in artillery shelling in Kyiv region

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office reported this on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.

District prosecutor's offices in the Kyiv region are conducting a pre-trial investigation in criminal proceedings on violations of the laws and customs of war (Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).

"According to the investigation, three civilians were killed and six were wounded in artillery strikes by the troops of the invaders on the villages of Tarasivka, Trebukhiv and Shevchenkove in the Brovary district and on the town of Bucha," the statement said.

Russian troops opened fire with artillery and automatic weapons on apartment buildings and private houses in the village of Andriyivka, the Bucha district, Bucha, Irpin, Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, as well as the villages of Tarasivka, Trebukhiv, Lukianivka and Shevchenkove in the Brovary district. Enemy shells damaged or completely destroyed the homes of citizens.

Invaders also shelled settlements in the Fastiv and Vyshgorod districts.

"Russian enemy troops are destroying architectural monuments. In the village of Lukianivka, the Brovary district, the occupiers destroyed the Church of the Ascension - a monument of Ukrainian wooden architecture of the second half of the 19th century," the Prosecutor General's Office said.