<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Russian strikes killed one person and wounded three others in the Ukrainian region of Kherson, a regional official said Monday.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moscow also launched a hail of missiles across Ukraine early on Monday, with Kyiv reporting it had shot down most of the projectiles.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Over the past day, the enemy carried out 39 shellings, firing 163 shells from heavy artillery, Grads, UAVs and aviation. The enemy shelled the city of Kherson 8 times," said Oleksandr Prokudin, of the military administration for Kherson, in Ukraine's south.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"As a result of Russian aggression, one person died and three others, including a child, were injured."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Russia still controls part of the Kherson region, having withdrawn from the eponymous regional capital last November.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Earlier this week, regional authorities said Russian shelling killed a 57-year-old woman and wounded three other people in the village of Bilozerka.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moscow recently renewed heavy missile attacks on Ukraine, killing 23 people in the city of Uman on Friday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It launched another volley from about 2:30 am Monday, officials said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Tonight, the enemy carried out another massive air attack on Ukraine," the military administration for the capital Kyiv said on Telegram.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram that 18 missiles were launched from planes, with 15 of them destroyed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Shelling wounded 25 people in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast and damaged dozens of buildings in the city of Pavlohrad, according to the regional administration.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ukraine's air defence systems have been bolstered in recent months by delivery Western equipment, including the American Patriot systems received in April.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The latest Russian attacks came as Kyiv prepares for a long-awaited counteroffensive, having vowed to expel Russian forces from territory they seized in the east and south following their 2022 invasion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Sunday a pre-dawn Ukrainian strike on a Russian border village killed four people and wounded two others, officials there said. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>