Ukrainian government officials have spoken of efforts to marshal up to a million troops and of their aim to recapture southern parts of the country now under Russian control.
24 what Moscow called "a special military operation" in its fellow ex-Soviet neighbour and is of strategic importance with Black Sea access, a once thriving agricultural industry and a location just north of Russian-annexed Crimea. The area Ukraine struck is one that Russia seized after launching on Feb. Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield accounts. A Russian-backed official in Kherson said at least seven people had been killed and that civilians and civilian infrastructure had been hit. The Russian TASS news agencies reported they said that at least seven people had been killed in the attack and around 70 injured. The town's Russia-installed authorities gave a different version of events. It came after Washington supplied Ukraine with advanced HIMARS mobile artillery systems which Kyiv says its forces are using with growing efficiency. The strike hit an ammunition dump in the town of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region and killed 52 people, Ukraine's military said. KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Tuesday it had carried out a long-range rocket strike against Russian forces and military equipment in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops. A man rides his bicycle at empty Konstytutsii (Constitution) square before curfew after Russian shelling in a military strike, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Kharkiv, Ukraine, July 11, 2022.
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