Ukrainian officials say that another long-range attack on a Russian storage site in the Kherson region has caused substantial damage.
Serhii Khlan, adviser to the head of the Kherson civil military administration, said on Ukrainian television that “another depot of ammunition and military equipment, which was brought by the enemy from Crimea, was destroyed yesterday on the outskirts of Skadovsk.”
Skadovsk is on the Black Sea coast, about 80 kilometers from the nearest Ukrainian frontline position. A target there was struck last week.
Khlan said: “The turning point in the military operations in the Kherson direction took place more than two weeks ago – due to HIMARS, thanks to which we began to knock out depots in the rear positions of the enemy.”
He said that in Skadovsk “there was a large amount of fuel and lubricant materials, and engineering equipment, which they are now driving from Crimea to repair the logistics arteries that were damaged by our military forces.”
Social media video Saturday night showed a large and continuing fire in the region, according to community Telegram channels, but could not be exactly geolocated.
“From the evening until the morning there was such a flame, and according to the locals, they had never seen such a flame,” Khlan said.
Fighting continues along Kherson’s northern borders, where Ukrainian forces have made moderate progress against entrenched Russian defenses.
Dmytro Butriy, temporary acting head of Kherson region military administration, said 46 settlements had emptied because of the fighting, which is in an area of small villages and rolling farmland.
“There are villages that are practically destroyed, by 90%,” he said. “They are still under constant shelling, the lion’s share of the population has left there. But people still remain in some settlements.”