Ukraine claims to have destroyed two Russian bases within the occupied metropolis of Melitopol

Ukrainian navy forces have destroyed two Russian navy bases within the Ukrainian city of Melitopol and prompted a whole lot of deaths among the many occupying troopers, the exiled mayor of the town, Ivan Fedorov, has introduced. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has not confirmed the variety of casualties.

“Two highly effective explosions had been heard within the northern districts of the town. We have info that two objects, the place the ‘Rusists’ had been stationed, had been destroyed,” the mayor mentioned in an interview, in keeping with the native information company Ukrinform.

According to preliminary info, a whole lot of occupying troopers “had been killed,” added the mayor. The Ukrainian company remembers that the occupying authorities issued an order to designate Melitopol as the executive middle of the captured Zaporizhia area.

This assault by Ukrainian forces on Russian targets comes amid escalating combating in Bakhmut. The Russian Donetsk militias affirmed this Sunday that the mercenary models of the Wagner Group have full management of the Stupki railway station, north of the city of Bakhmut, the epicenter of the combating in japanese Ukraine.