Serhiy Bratchuk, of the Odesa regional military administration, posted on Telegram:

“After a strike by HIMARS on the headquarters in the Kherson region, Major General Nasbulin, the head of the 22nd Army Corps of the Russian Armed Forces, was killed. Colonel Kens, whose death we announced yesterday, died there as well. And apart from him, the commander of the 20th motorized rifle Colonel Andrei Gorobyets, the head of the operational department of the headquarters of the 20th MRD, Colonel Koval, the head of artillery of the 20th MRD, Colonel Gordeev. In total more than 150 died, including 5 officers,” according to Bratchuk.

In an intercepted phone call between Russian troops described by the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Defense Ministry, one man St that “the top command” had been wiped in a strike in Kherson. He says to another man that there are “12 dead among the ‘big shot f— command.”