Nearly 200 people are in need of medical help after the Ukrainian attack.

Seven people are missing after Ukrainian troops hit Novaya Kakhovka, a city controlled by Moscow in southern Ukraine.

More footage from Novaya Kakhovka, another ammunition depot of Russian invaders was demilitarized by Armed Forces of Ukraine. Wait for… Bang.pic.twitter.com/ZdSRmKAy2C

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According to local Russian officials, 5 people have been killed and at least 80 are injured in shelling in the city of Novaya Kakhovka by Ukrainian forces.

Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the region, told RIA Novosti that 7 people are missing.

Vladimir Leontyev, administration chief of Novaya Kakhovka, said that a fertilizer storage depot detonated from shelling and many houses were damaged. Other civilian sites, including a market, and a hospital were also damaged.

A storage facility with 35 TONS OF AID, including food, has also been destroyed.

Local officials claim that Ukrainian troops used US-provided HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to attack the city.

‼️ 🇺🇳The UN condemned the shelling of civilian infrastructure in Novaya Kakhovka

The UN opposes the shelling of civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. This was announced by the deputy official representative of the Secretary General of the World Organization Farhan Haq‼️ pic.twitter.com/epHKURv7wq

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The Ukraine and Russia have repeatedly accused each other of shelling residential areas and killing civilians.

According to the Pentagon, the US provided Kyiv with 8 HIMARS systems since the beginning of the conflict in February. Last week, Russian authorities claimed they destroyed 2 of these rocket systems in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

A day before the strike on Novaya Kakhovka, authorities in the DPR accused Ukrainian forces of using the US-made systems in an attack that killed 3 civilians involved in a humanitarian mission.

Novaya Kakhovka, a regional center, came under Russian control on February 24.

Previously, there had not been any information in open sources that there were warehouses containing saltpeter in the city.

The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday that it destroyed an ammunition depot in Novaya Kakhovka.

“Such strikes on civilian sites can only draw resolute condemnation. It is a direct consequence of the delivery of weapons by the United States to Kiev,” Dmitry Polyansky, the deputy head of Russia’s mission to the UN, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

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