July 12 (Reuters) - Ukraine said it had carried out a long-range rocket strike against Russian forces and military equipment in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops. read more
* The death toll under a collapsed apartment block in the Donetsk region town of Chasiv Yar has climbed to 43, with rescue work still not over four days after the building was hit by Russian rocket fire, emergency services said. read more
* At least 12 people were injured in shelling of the southern city of Mykolaiv overnight, the regional governor said. In the northeast, the mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city, told Ukrainian TV that it was under constant Russian shelling.
* At least seven people were killed and 70 injured in an attack by Ukrainian armed forces on Monday in the Russian-held town of Nova Kakhovka in the southern Kherson region, the Russian-installed administration there said. Ukrainian officials said their forces had destroyed an ammunition depot in Nova Kakhovka.
* Russian and Russian-backed separatist forces are encircling the town of Sieversk in Donetsk region, Russian state news agency TASS cited Rodion Miroshnik, ambassador to Moscow of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, as saying.
* Ukraine's general staff said Russia had unleashed a wave of bombardments as they seek to seize Donetsk, the other province in the eastern industrial Donbas region, after taking Luhansk to the north. It said the widespread shelling amounted to preparations for an intensification of hostilities.
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