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| Russian Air Defense Systems Repel Ukrainian Air Strikes on Melitopol |
Moscow - Russian air defense systems repelled attacks from the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Melitopol. This was revealed by Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council for the civil-military administration of the Zaporozhye region.
"Melitopol - very loud! Air defenses are responding. They (Ukrainian military) sent missiles and attacked drones into the sleeping city," Rogov wrote on his Telegram channel account.
“The lives of Melitopol residents are reliably protected by Russian air defenses. The air targets were destroyed," Rogov continued, as quoted by the TASS news agency, Sunday (24/7/2022).
Earlier, a Ukrainian missile attack was also reported to have hit a bridge in the Kherson region of the Russian-occupied Black Sea on Saturday (23/7/2022).
The attack targeted a Russian supply route, as Kiev braced for a major counter-offensive, a Ukrainian regional official said. The attack hit the Daryivskyi bridge across the Ingulets river used for supplies by Russian troops, days after the main bridge over the nearby Dnieper was hit, an adviser to the governor of the region located in Ukrainian-controlled territory said.
“Every bridge is a weak point for logistics and our armed forces skillfully destroy enemy systems. This is not Kherson's release yet, but a serious preparatory step in that direction," the official, Serhiy Khlan, wrote on Facebook.
The deputy head of the Russian-founded regional authority said the bridge had been hit by seven rockets from the Western-supplied high mobility artillery rocket system (HIMARS).
However, the bridge is still functioning, the Russian news agency TASS said. Ukraine has used long-range weapons supplied from the west to attack Russian supply lines and ammunition dumps in a bid to turn the tide in the war and prepare for a counter-offensive in the Kherson region.