Armed with missiles supplied by the US, Ukrainian forces claim responsibility for an explosion on an ammunition depot in Russian- controlled territory that killed more than 50 people.
Ukrainian authorities said their forces targeted a Russian ammunition depot in southern Ukraine overnight, resulting in a massive explosion that killed 52.Attacks by Russian forces in Ukraine killed a further 16 civilians on TuesdayThe Ukrainian military's southern command said a rocket strike targeted the depot in Russian-held Nova Kakhovka, about 55 km east of the Black Sea port city of Kherson, which is also occupied by Russian forces.
Russia's Tass news agency offered a different account of the blast in Nova Kakhovka, saying a mineral fertiliser storage facility exploded, and that a market, hospital and houses were damaged in the strike. Some of the ingredients in fertiliser can be used for ammunition.Ukraine now has eight of the HIMAR systems, a truck-mounted missile launcher with high accuracy, and Washington has promised to send another four.
The head of the Donetsk regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said on social media earlier in the day that nine wounded people were rescued from the building in Chasiv Yar. "The Russians continue their tactics of intimidating the peaceful population of the Kharkiv region," Kharkiv Govenor Oleh Syniehubov wrote on Tuesday on Telegram.
In eastern Luhansk, "fighting continues near the villages" on the administrative border with neighbouring Donetsk, Luhansk Governor Serhiy Haidai said.
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