Ukrainian army strike Russian ammunition depot
The Ukrainian military on Tuesday reported the destruction of a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine, resulting in a massive outburst on social media, while rescuers said the death toll from a weekend Russian attack in the country’s east increased to 45.
The Ukrainian military’s southern command said an overnight rocket attack targeted a depot in Russian-held Nova Kakhovka. Nova Kakhovka is about 55 kilometers (35 mi) east of the Black Sea port city of Kherson, which is also occupied by Russian forces.
The accuracy of the attack suggested that the Ukrainian military used the US-supplied Multiple-Launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS. Ukraine has signaled in recent days that it may launch a retaliation to reclaim territory in the south as Russia bombed the eastern Donbass region.
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Russia’s Tass news agency gave a different description of the explosion in Nova Kakhovka, saying a mineral fertilizer storage facility exploded and damaged a market, hospital and homes. Some ingredients in fertilizer can be used for ammunition.
A satellite photo taken Tuesday and analyzed by the Associated Press showed significant damage. A large crater stood exactly where the warehouse-like structure once stood.
Ukraine now has eight HIMAR systems, a truck-mounted missile launcher with high accuracy, and Washington has promised to send four more.
Explosions were reported late Tuesday in Luhansk, a city in the Donbass that has been under the control of Russian-backed separatists since 2014, along with videos posted on social media. Russian news agency Interfax reported that Andrei Marochko, a spokesman for separatist forces, said the Ukrainian military had dealt a “big blow” to the air defense system in Luhansk. He said that nothing can be said about any casualties so far. There was no immediate information from the Ukrainian government or military.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video address, “The occupiers have already realized what modern artillery is like, and their rear will never be safe anywhere on our land that they have occupied.” “They have realized that the operations of our intelligence officers to defend their homeland are an order of magnitude greater than any of their special operations.”
Elsewhere in Ukraine, Russian shelling has killed at least 16 civilians and injured 48 others over the past 24 hours, Ukraine’s presidential office said in its update on Tuesday morning. The office said cities and towns in five Southeast regions were hit by Russian fire.
Nine civilians were killed and two others were injured in Donetsk province, which accounts for half of the Donbass. The presidential office said Russian rocket attacks targeted the cities of Sloviask and Toretsk, where a kindergarten was killed.
The British military said on Tuesday that Russia was continuing to make “small, incremental gains” in Donetsk, where heavy fighting prompted the province’s governor last week to urge its 350,000 remaining residents to move to safer places in western Ukraine.
The emergency services agency said late Tuesday that the death toll from the Russian rocket attack on Saturday’s Donetsk apartment building had risen to 45. It said workers found more bodies during the day in Chasiv Yar while digging out the rubble of a five-storey building, and nine people were also rescued.
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Yet many in the Donbass, a fertile industrial region in eastern Ukraine that includes Donetsk and Luhansk provinces, refuse – or are unable – to flee, despite hundreds of civilians being killed and wounded every week.
In and around Ukraine’s second-largest city, northeastern Kharkiv, Russian attacks targeted residential buildings, killing four civilians and injuring nine, Ukrainian officials said.
“Russia continues its strategy to intimidate the peaceful population of the Kharkiv region,” Kharkiv government Ole Sinihubov wrote on Telegram on Tuesday.
Russian fire also struck the southern city of Mykolaiv on Tuesday morning, causing damage to residential buildings. Regional governor Vitaly Kim said on Telegram that twelve people were injured as a result of Russian shelling, with some rockets hitting two medical facilities.
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Airstrike sirens were sounded in the western city of Lviv on Tuesday – the first day there in more than a week – and Russian forces continued to advance into other regions of Ukraine.
In eastern Luhansk, “fighting continues near villages” on the administrative border with neighboring Donetsk, Luhansk government Serhi Haidai told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
“The Russian army burns everything in its path. The artillery barrage does not stop and sometimes continues for four to six hours,” Haidai said.
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