GENICHESK, January 20. /TASS/. Russian forces eliminated about 20 Ukrainian territorial defense fighters near the city of Kherson, a regional emergency official told reporters.

"According to a source in Kherson, 18 militants from the 124th Territorial Defense Brigade were killed near the Antonovka settlement last night and another ten suffered wounds," he said.

According to earlier reports, an artillery unit of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which was shelling the town of Golaya Pristan on the left bank of the Dnieper River, was eliminated in a Kherson suburb.