Fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops continues in the vicinity of the southeastern Ukrainian town of Kakhova, where the epicenter of the Ukrainian forces’ advance in the southeast of the country is located.
In particular, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has detailed that a building in which 200 Russian soldiers were located has been demolished. According to the Ukrainian side, the consequence of the attack on the building would have been «carefully concealed» by Russia «The enemy carefully conceals the consequences of the attack, strict administrative and police measures are being taken in the city. In addition, a large column of military equipment was destroyed in the area of the Radensk settlement,» the Ukrainian military said in a statement.
Likewise, the Ukrainian Air Force is said to have hit Russian troops in the same locality up to 18 times. Seventeen of them hit areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment, as well as the position of the occupants’ air defense equipment.
Meanwhile, Russia has accused Ukraine of «playing with the lives of civilians» and of surrendering «to nuclear blackmail» by allegedly shelling the Kakhova hydroelectric power plant, «The Ukrainian Armed Forces have shelled the Kakhova power plant with the US HIMARS systems. Kiev is playing with the lives of civilians, resorting again to nuclear blackmail,» the chairman of the international committee of the Russian State Duma, Leonid Slutski, has remonstrated on his Telegram account.
«With the destruction of several hydroelectric power plants, what the Ukrainian Army is trying to do may involve a nuclear accident in Zaporiyia,» Slutski said, as reported by TASS news agency.
Russia has signed that there has been no critical damage to the power plant facilities, although «the terrorist regime in Kiev will continue its attempts to organize a humanitarian catastrophe».
«In case the gates of the plant are destroyed, the water flow will flow down the Dnieper to flood both settlements and, in theory, the Zaporiyia nuclear power plant,» the Russian official has argued.
