GENICHESK, March 15. /TASS/. Polling stations in several settlements in the Kherson Region came under shelling by Ukrainian troops, several people were hurt, the regional election commission said.

"Ukrainian troops struck premises housing local election commission in the city of Kakhovka and the village of Brilevka. No one was hurt in Kakhovka. Several people were wounded in Brilevka. They are receiving medical assistance. Voters were evacuated from the buildings," it wrote on its Telegram channel.

Voting at three-day presidential election proceeds in the Kherson Region from March 15 to 17. Like elsewhere in Russia. Sixty-one polling stations have been organized in the Kherson Region.

One day before the beginning of the election, the region’s governor, Vladimir Saldo, said that Ukraine had intensified attacks on civilian infrastructure in Russia-controlled areas in a bid to destabilize the situation.