<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">In Ukraine, at least nine people have been killed and 10 others injured in Russian shelling on the southern city of Kherson.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">       </p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">Head of the Kherson regional military administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, said that hundreds of shells were fired at the city and the surrounding area last night.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">On the other hand, the Ukrainian armed forces claimed that they had carried out successful actions on the east bank of the Dnipro River.</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The river has been the de facto front line in southern Ukraine since Russian forces withdrew from the Kherson region last November.</span></p>