Russia has launched a missile strike on Zaporozhye, and is also conducting offensive operations in the region. What is known at the moment.

About 6:50 on Tuesday residents of Zaporozhye woke up from explosions in the city

“Arrivals have been recorded.” The circumstances are being clarified, “the Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration said.

The adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko wrote that “three explosions are known”. City Council Secretary Anatoliy Kurtev urged citizens not to share photos and videos of the consequences.

“It is currently known that two racist guided missiles hit the territory of one of the city’s enterprises in the morning. The third missile exploded in the air. Infrastructure facilities were damaged and destroyed. All relevant services are working on the site,” the administration said later.

According to preliminary information, one person was killed and one was injured. The consequences of the incident are currently being eliminated, so the number of victims can be clarified.

Ukrainian authorities say that Russian troops are conducting offensive operations in the Zaporozhye region. The day before, the attacks were concentrated near the village of Trudolyubivka, located just 16 kilometers from the regional center.

“In the Zaporozhye direction, the enemy is conducting offensive operations in the direction of the village of Trudolyubivka. The situation remains under control,” the local military administration said.

At the same time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine indicates that fighting continues near this village.

In other districts of the region the situation is also tense.

In the town of Polohy, 8 houses were damaged and reeds were burned as a result of the shelling. In Vasylivka, as a result of Russian strikes, a utility room of a gas station was on fire. And in the city of Molochansk of the Pologivsky area, at the railway station, due to military actions of the Russian Federation the railway passenger car was damaged by fire.

Also as a result of hostilities, sewage treatment plants that receive sewage from the towns of Vasylivka and the village of Stepnogirsk in the Vasylivka district were damaged.

The Russians caused fires on the territory of private households in Orikhiv. In total, 554 households in the region have been completely destroyed or partially damaged to date

The enemy’s efforts in recent days have also focused on breaking through the Ukrainian front near Huliaipil. Here, Russian troops are building up the control system and air defense. They are firing on the positions of Ukrainian troops with mortars, artillery and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

In addition, Russia strikes air strikes by operational and tactical aircraft. The regional administration claims that the Armed Forces is repelling the offensive and carrying out counterattacks.

In addition to directly attacking Ukraine’s positions, Russia is also threatening to cause a catastrophe at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in occupied Energodar.

The Ukrainian Energoatom said that two more Russian cruise missiles flew over the Ukrainian nuclear power plant on the morning of April 26.

“Today, at 6:41 and 6:46, two enemy cruise missiles flew at low altitude over the Zaporizhzhya NPP site in the direction of Zaporizhia. Later, explosions were recorded in Zaporizhia from Russian cruise missiles,” the company said in a statement.

“Nuclear terrorism on the part of Russia is intensifying, the threat is getting worse. In the 36 years since the Chernobyl tragedy, Russia has exposed the whole world to the danger of a repeat of the nuclear catastrophe,” Energoatom said.

According to the head of the company Petro Kotin, the flight of low-altitude missiles directly above the site of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, where 7 nuclear facilities with a huge amount of nuclear material are located, creates huge risks. After all, missiles can hit one or more installations, and this threatens a nuclear and radiation catastrophe around the world.

According to Energoatom, the Russians are holding heavy equipment and ammunition directly at the ZNPP site, effectively “turning the station into a military base and terrorizing the station’s staff and the population of the satellite city.”

“Do not forget that we are a front-line city and that the enemy is constantly trying to move in the direction of Zaporozhye,” – said Secretary of the Zaporozhye City Council Anatoly Kurtev in an April 25 address to locals.

The regional leadership, in turn, reassures that the front line has stabilized and the main fighting is going southeast of Zaporozhye.

“The offensive is underway. There are attempts to attack (Zaporizhzhya), but today the main battles are taking place in order to surround the troops in the area of operation of the joint forces,” – said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh on April 23.

According to him, the enemy is directly attacking the settlements east of Huliaipil to break into the Donetsk region and surround the Ukrainian forces there. The Zaporizhzhya Territorial Defense Brigade clarifies that Russian troops have gathered a lot of equipment and personnel on the section of the Velyka Novosilka-Novodarivka-Malynivka front line.

As for the regional center, so far the enemy is resorting only to rocket fire.

One of them took place in the afternoon of April 21. Russia struck several strikes on Zaporozhye with cruise missiles.

The first fell on the island of Khortytsia near the Transfiguration Bridge. At that time, an evacuation train from Zaporizhia to Lviv was traveling on it, in which an explosive wave knocked out the windows of four cars. The windows of cars moving on the bridge also flew out, OVA reported.

According to the old woman, in this situation people were “very lucky” because the train missed the rocket for “several tens of seconds”.

Then the Russians struck a second blow with a missile, which also hit the island of Khortytsia. As a result, the building of the sanatorium of one of the enterprises was damaged, 8 citizens were injured.

The Russians are beating on the railway to complicate communication and transportation, the old man explained.

On the same day, the military leadership and local authorities decided to begin the fortification of Zaporozhye. We are talking, in particular, about the construction of trenches and dugouts.

“This will significantly strengthen the city’s defense capabilities and complicate any attempts to attack enemy forces,” said the head of the OBA Starukh.

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