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Ukrainian rockets hit Russian-held area as Kyiv readies southern counter-attack

Ukrainian rockets hit Russian-held area as Kyiv readies southern counter-attack

TOM BALMFORTH and PAVEL POLITYUK UKRAINE said 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. The strike hit an ammunition dump in the town of Nova Kakhovka in the Kherson region and killed 52 Russians, Ukraine's military said. It came after Washington supplied Ukraine with advanced HIMARS mobile artillery systems which Kyiv says its forces are using with ever greater efficiency. A Russian-installed official in Kherson gave a different version of events. He said…
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