On Tuesday night, Ukrainian forces launched 24 US HIMARS missiles against the city of Kherson, 21 of which were shot down, according to the emergency services of the regional capital, controlled by Russia since the beginning of the war.
“In total, [the Ukrainians] launched 24 HIMARS rockets. Twenty-one were shot down by air defense units and three rockets deviated from their trajectory and fell into the water next to the Antonivka bridge,” said a spokesman for the emergency services quoted by the official Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
The city of Kherson, capital of the homonymous region, is located on the right bank of the Dnieper, a river that separates it from the rest of the territory of that administrative unit, annexed by Russia on September 30, along with the region of Zaporijia and the so-called Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.
In recent weeks, Ukrainian troops have made significant progress in the north and northeast of the Kherson region, so the Russian-installed regional administration has ordered the evacuation of the civilian population – first from the right bank of the Dnieper and, on Monday, from a strip of 15 kilometers on the opposite bank.
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