Russian base ablaze near Melitopol – mayor
IRYNA BALACHUK — TUESDAY, 12 JULY 2022, 14:43
A base belonging to a military unit of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, which had been seized by the occupiers, is on fire in the village of Myrne, near Melitopol.
Source: Mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov; local media outlet RIA Melitopol on Telegram
Quote from Fedorov: "According to local residents, the base of the military unit of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the village of Myrne, Melitopol district, which had been seized by the occupiers, is on fire.
It was there that the Russians moved their military equipment after the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched devastating strikes on a Russian base near the airfield in Melitopol a week ago."
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Details: Local people near Myrne reportedly heard about 25 explosions. Thick black smoke can be seen from the side of the occupiers' base. According to RIA Melitopol, smoke can be seen over Semenivka in particular.
It is also being reported that ammunition can be heard detonating and "flying away" in the direction of Zaporizhzhia. In addition, local people heard bursts of machine-gun fire near the military unit in Melitopol.
RIA Melitopol reports that explosions were also heard in Melitopol at night, around 00:30. The noise was loudest in the microdistrict and in the Semenivka area. It is noted that the Russian anti-aircraft system went off first, followed by shooting.
Previously: On the night of 12 July, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked the premises of the Security Service of Ukraine in occupied Enerhodar, which had been occupied by the Russian invaders.
Background:
- Recently the invaders have been reporting explosions in the cities they occupy in Ukraine with increasing frequency.
- For example, on 4 July, the Kremlin-aligned media and militants’ social media distributed a video about an explosion at a railway station in occupied Donetsk.
- On 5 July, an ammunition depot exploded in occupied Donetsk. The Russian invaders had located the depot in the Kamaz Centre in the Kyiv district of the city.
- On 9 July, there were two explosions in Mariupol – in the area of the Illich Steel and Iron Works and in the Azovstal area.
- On 12 July, Pivden (South) Operational Command confirmed the destruction of a Russian ammunition depot in temporarily occupied Nova Kakhovka in Kherson Oblast.
