On the night from Wednesday to Thursday in the area of ​​the city of Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region, which has been occupied by Moscow for more than a year, where the military airport used by Russian troops is located, several explosions were about to happen. Ivan Fedorov, the legitimate mayor of a city in the southeast of Ukraine, EFE and Agerpres report.

“We are counting Russia’s losses,” said Mayor Ivan Fedorov, who continues to perform his functions from the territory of Ukraine controlled by the government in Kyiv.

The Moscow-imposed occupation authority that runs the city confirmed the blasts, saying there were “six HIMARS missiles” launched by the “Nazi (Ukrainian) regime” and which were “shot down by Russian air defense systems,” according to the memo. they posted it on their Telegram account.

“All the missiles were shot down,” says the text of the pro-Russian administration, which claims that there are no casualties or material damage.

The Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol denied the truth of the occupation administration’s version and stated that he knew about the ambulance that was sent to the airfield after the explosions.

Since Wednesday, Fedorov has reported several explosions in Melitopol, a city located in Zaporizhia Oblast, which Russia partially occupied and declared part of its territory last September.

Attack with a car trap

This week, Russian authorities reported a car bomb attack on the head of the occupation administration Maksym Zubarev in the village of Akimivka (Zaporizhia region). The Ukrainian authorities also confirmed the fact that Zubarev was wounded near Melitopol.

In recent months, the city of about 150,000 people has seen several attacks on officials working with Moscow before the Russian invasion began.

At the same time, the General Staff of Ukraine reported in its diary that over the last day, Ukrainian troops repelled about 20 assault attempts to “completely” capture Bakhmut, a city that Russian troops have been trying to take for nine years. months of capturing the epicenter of hostilities in the east of Ukraine, reports EFE.

In its statement, the Ukrainian military command also indicates that the Russian army “intensified work on strengthening defensive positions” in the territories under its control of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine, probably in anticipation of a possible Ukrainian counteroffensive.

A spokesman for Ukraine’s border guard said on Wednesday that Russia was considering moving half of its 4,000 troops in Belarus to eastern Ukraine to “strengthen forces on the front line.” Andrii Demechenko, the spokesman of the Border Service, said that these 2,000 can be transferred to Ukraine after completing the training in Belarus.

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