The Ukrainian Army “neutralized” during the early hours of this Sunday a Russian military base in Melitopol, a city in southern Ukraine controlled by Russian forces, its mayor in exile announced.
“Today the Ukrainian military forces dismantled one of the Russian military bases” in the city, Ivan Fedorov said in a video posted on the Telegram social network.
The official added that “at 3:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., 30 attacks hit the military base exclusively,” he added, specifying that “the city of Melitopol is covered in smoke” and this fact “has lasted several hours. because fuel tank that was on the base caught fire“.
A spokesman for the Ukrainian General Staff announced this Sunday that the Ukrainian air force carried out fifteen missions, in particular in the Zaporizhia region, to which Melitopol belongs, and that “about twenty enemy equipment units and two ammunition depots.
Evgueni Balitski, head of the pro-Russian administration in the region, indicated on Telegram that houses near the base were damaged and that “projectiles fell on the territory of the airfield”, guaranteeing that “there were no injuries”.
Ukrainian media posted several videos on social media, showing a long plume of smoke in the air near Melitopol.
Melitopol was conquered by Russian forces in the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a pro-Moscow administration was quickly installed there.
Source: Observadora
