UAV event in Kherson Oblast, Tavriiskyi area, Ukraine on Tue 4th August 2026

4th August 2026

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A civilian was deliberately hunted down and murdered by Russian terrorists in Kherson today.

At a food market in the city’s Tavriiskyi district, a Russian FPV drone operator targeted a civilian vendor standing beside his car, loaded with the vegetables he sold to make a living. The drone followed him, locked onto him and killed him.

Russians carry out such deliberate attacks on civilians so frequently in Kherson that this campaign of terror has acquired its own name: the “human safari.”

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Kherson Oblast ( Tavriiskyi area )

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