Residents were seen evacuating Kherson a day after Russian shelling in the city hit a supermarket, a railway station and residential buildings, killing 23 people and injuring another 46, according to local officials. Moscow has stepped up airstrikes on Ukraine in the past few days as Kyiv prepares for a counteroffensive in which it is expected to try to retake occupied territory in Kherson region. Ukrainian troops recaptured Kherson city last November after nearly eight months of occupation, but Russian troops retreated only as far as the opposite side of the Dnipro River, from where they now shell the city
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