At least 9 people wounded in shelling during Kherson evacuations, Ukrainian officials say

At least nine people have been injured by shelling as civilians evacuate Kherson city Thursday, local Ukrainian officials said.

At least nine people have been injured by shelling as civilians evacuate Kherson city Thursday, local Ukrainian officials said.

Two employees of the State Emergency Service, a police officer, a doctor and a volunteer from Germany are among those wounded, said Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of Kherson's regional military administration.

“One man is in intensive care with serious injuries, and doctors are fighting for his life,” Prokudin said. 

“Today the Russians have committed another terrorist act! A massive artillery attack on the locations where our rescuers are working," Serhiy Kruk, the head of Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, said. 

Rescuers are trying to evacuate thousands of people in the flood zone of the Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka dam and hydro-electric power plant in the southern Kherson region, which collapsed Tuesday, sending torrents of water gushing down the Dnipro River. Kherson city is under Ukrainian control.

Both Russia and Ukraine are accusing each other of shelling during the evacuations.

Kyiv and Moscow also accuse each other of causing the breach in the first place, although it is unclear whether the dam was deliberately attacked, or whether the collapse was the result of structural failure.