2023-06-18 06:46:21
Serhiy Prachuk, a spokesman for the military department in Odessa, said on Sunday that Ukrainian forces destroyed an ammunition depot “Mahma” near the port city of Henichesk in the southern Kherson region.
“Our armed forces dealt a strong blow in the morning, and a very loud blow, in the village of Rykov in the Henichesk district of the temporarily occupied area of the Kherson region,” Prachuk added in a video message on Sunday morning.
And he added, “There was a very important ammunition depot, which was destroyed.”
And Ukrainian media published videos showing a thick column of smoke rising in the sky, with the sound of explosions.
Rykov is located regarding 20 km from Henichesk, a port city overlooking the Sea of Azov in southern Ukraine, which Russia took control of in February 2022.
For its part, the Ukrainian Air Command announced the downing of two Ka-52 attack helicopters and 4 Iranian Shahed drones during the past 24 hours.
The leadership said: The Ukrainian Air Force carried out a series of air strikes (20 raids) targeting the sites of the Russian forces, adding that a possible threat of Russian missile attacks on the Donetsk and Zaporizhia regions still exists.
Ukraine launched a long-discussed counter-attack a few days ago, which led to an intensification of fighting on the Ukrainian fronts, amid ebbs and flows of losses and gains for both conflicting parties.
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