War in Ukraine live: in the Kherson region, seven people killed according to the Russian occupation forces, kyiv continues its counter-offensive – Le Monde

Seven people killed in Kherson, Russia says Russian occupying forces in the southern Kherson region said seven people were killed and around 60 others injured in the Ukrainian bombardment that hit the city of Nova Kakhovka, on the night of Monday to Tuesday, declared, on Telegram, Vladimir Leontiev, the head of the military-civilian administration installed in this locality by the Russian forces. Ukraine, meanwhile, said it carried out a strike on military targets in Nova Kakhovka, adding that 52 Russian servicemen were killed and an ammunition warehouse destroyed. In a video broadcast by Russian media, a huge ball of fire and wreaths are thrown into the sky in the middle of the night, while powerful explosions sound and a thick column of white smoke rises. On other images taken in the morning and broadcast by the occupation authorities, we see several destroyed buildings. “Dozens of houses were affected (…). We get people out of the rubble,” Leontiev said. “It is a terrible tragedy (…). The number [de victimes] will increase, because the extent of the damage is enormous”, he added, denouncing an “act of terrorism”. Bordering the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, the Kherson region is largely occupied by Russian forces engaged since February 24 in the invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian army has been leading a counter-offensive on the Kherson front for several weeks, while the bulk of Russian troops are deployed in Donbass, in the east of the country. kyiv has managed to regain ground and get closer to Kherson, a city of 290,000 inhabitants, but has not yet managed to break through the Russian defense lines in depth. Read also: War in Ukraine: in Kherson, life at Russian time