GENICHESK, August 22. /TASS/. Ukrainian troops have increased attacks on the town of Alyoshki in the Kherson Region amid negotiations on settling the Ukraine conflict, District Head Ruslan Khomenko has said.

"We began to receive more complete and shocking statistics about shelling attacks on the town of Alyoshki. The enemy has continued and even escalated the attacks against the background of the talks on the peaceful settlement of the conflict. Nazi cells are angered that the deliveries of new cannon fodder and drugs to the trenches may stop, this is the only way to explain the irrational actions by the criminal Kiev regime," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

Khomenko added that from August 15 through 20, Ukrainian troops carried out 302 strikes with mortar and tube artillery and 82 drone attacks on the district, killing one civilian and injuring ten.

"Overnight into August 20, in one of the populated centers, the Nazis attempted to murder the family of my colleague, an administration staffer. The house was destroyed with motor vehicles damaged. Luckily, the family was not harmed. This is an abnormal reaction to the selfless labor of a person who is day and night helping civilians, arriving at incoming strikes and fires, personally participating in extinguishing blazes," Khomenko stressed.