Russian ammunition depot was apparently targeted by Ukrainian forces at night, resulting in a massive explosion captured on social media.
The southern command of the Ukrainian army said the missile strike targeted the depot in Russian-occupied Nova Kakhovka, about 55 miles east of the important Black Sea port city of Kherson, which is also occupied by Russian troops.
Video on social media showed a huge explosion.
The nature of the attack suggested that Ukrainian forces used US-supplied multiple launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (Himars) to attack the area.
Russia’s Tass news agency offered another account, saying the target was a mineral fertilizer storage facility that exploded, damaging a market, hospital and homes.
This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows the aftermath of a Ukrainian attack on a Russian munitions depot in Nova Kakhovka
† APSome ingredients in fertilizer can be used for ammunition.
Ukrainian authorities also said Russian fire struck the southern city of Mykolaiv on Tuesday morning, hitting two medical facilities and residential buildings.
Four people were injured in the shelling, Mykolaiv regional governor Vitaliy Kim said on Telegram.
Air raid sirens sounded early Tuesday morning in the western city of Lviv and other parts of Ukraine as Russian forces continued to make progress.
According to a Tuesday intelligence briefing by the British military, Russia continues to make “small, incremental gains” in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, where heavy fighting last week led to the governor of the province urging its 350,000 remaining residents to move to safer places. moving places in the west. Ukraine.
Yet many in the Donbas, a fertile industrial region in eastern Ukraine comprising the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk, are refusing or unable to flee, despite dozens of civilians being killed and injured every week.
The death toll in a Russian rocket attack that hit an apartment building in eastern Ukraine on Saturday has risen to 34.
The head of Donetsk’s regional military administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, made the announcement on social media, saying nine injured people had been recovered from the building in Chasiv Yar.
The British intelligence briefing said that Russia had captured the Ukrainian city of Hryhorivka and moved on to the cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk in Donetsk province.
“Russian forces are likely to maintain military pressure on Ukrainian forces as they regroup and reassemble for further offensives in the near future,” the briefing said.
However, Russia could rely more heavily on private forces, such as the Wagner mercenary group, to prevent a general mobilization, the British said.