On 11 July 2022,

Ukrainian forces , imports = , exports = , history = , ranks = Military ranks of Ukraine , country=Ukraine The Armed Forces of Ukraine ( uk, Збро́йні си́ли Украї́ни), most commonly know ...

launched a missile attack on the Russian-occupied city of

Nova Kakhovka Nova Kakhovka ( uk, Нова́ Кахо́вка, ; russian: Новая Каховка) is a city in the central Kakhovka Raion region of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine currently under Russian occupation. Nova Kakhovka is an important por ...

during the

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. Russia said that Ukraine used

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missiles for the operation, having recently acquired them from the United States.

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Targets in the city were hit with large explosions, destroying an ammunitions depot. Videos showed an "immense fireball" rising out of the target. Ukraine claimed that 52 Russian soldiers were killed, and that 12 officers died including 22nd Army Corps

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. The Southern Military command of the

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said that "Based on the results of our rocket and artillery units, the enemy lost 52 soldiers, an

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howitzer, a mortar, and seven armoured and other vehicles, as well as an ammunition depot in Nova Kakhovka." Russian officials and state news agencies said that at least seven people had been killed and 60 wounded, including civilians, and that widespread civilian properties, including a market, a pharmacy and church, warehouses, and houses had been damaged. A pro-Russian official in the governing Kakhovka District military-civilian administration said that several people were still trapped under the buildings' ruins. These claims have not yet been independently verified. Ukrainian spokesman Serhiy Khlan said that reports that the attack had damaged hospitals and residential areas were part of

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and that many civilians in the town were happy at the idea of the Ukrainian forces being closer to the city.

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