Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov, commenting on the relevant message from Reuters, said that the offensive by the Ukrainian army in the south of the country was “another fraud of Ukrainian propaganda”. He noted that cyber attacks and information fraud by Kiev in order to operate in the West led to the death of people.
“This is the same information stuffing as before. Ukrainian formations are suffering serious losses both in the south and in all other directions. But Western masters need to operate, so a gang of drug addicts and criminals is engaged in the manufacture of imitation and information fraud. And people who are thrown to certain death to achieve an informative effect are not sorry for drug addicts ”- Wrote Aksenov is on the Telegram channel.
Earlier, Reuters, head of the press center of the “South” Operational Command of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Natalya Gumenyuk, reported on the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the southern direction.
“Today we have launched offensive operations in different directions, including in the Kherson region,” he said. reported Gumenyuk.
Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region refuted Reports of the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south of the country.
“It is fake. The attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces is a kind of illusion, a movie. Nobody is advancing, nobody is retreating. It’s all fantasy. We live calmly, we develop,” he said.
Non-virtual bombardment of hydroelectric and nuclear power plants
On August 29, Novaya Kakhovka and Energodar, especially the Zaporizhzhya NPP, were bombed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Air raid warnings were issued several times in the Kakhovka region since midnight. During the night, Ukrainian military shells fell on the market, on the factory building and on the territory of private buildings. A Ukrainian drone was shot down over the ZNPP. There are wounded among its inhabitants.
“They have declared evacuation from their workplaces, people in the city, in bomb shelters, because the sirens don’t stop working. “There have already been more than 10 rocket attacks in one day,” he said. knowledgeable Vladimir Leontiev, head of the Kakhovka district administration.
He added that the Ukrainian Armed Forces bombed Novaya Kakhovka from the American HIMARS MLRS, a rocket fell into the courtyard of the house and did not explode, but was neutralized by the sappers. The Ukrainian army also used Tochka-U missiles.
“The territory of the hydroelectric power station, the nearby areas are constantly bombarded, the key channel suffers, roads, buildings located on the territory of the hydroelectric power station. Where there is no army, the market will be severely affected. “A rocket hit the territory of a driving school 50 meters from the fourth general education school with fragments,” Leontyev said.
Also, a representative of the administration of the Zaporozhye region, Vladimir Rogov, reported that the ZNPP was bombed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from Nikopol – the roof of one of the station buildings was damaged.
“This building stores fresh fuel for the ZNPP reactors” – Wrote He adds photos of the broken vault roof on his Telegram channel.
On the afternoon of August 29, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that a Ukrainian drone was stopped over the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
“A Ukrainian attack aircraft was shot down by small arms fire as it approached the building of Special Building No. 1, where American-made nuclear fuel and solid radioactive waste are stored,” the military department said in a statement.
“The lives of millions of people are in danger”
By the way, the mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, in an interview with an Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera He called for negotiations with Russia.
“I think it’s important to negotiate politically when the lives of millions of people are at stake,” the official said.
According to him, Ukraine should return to the borders of 1991, but this should be done step by step. Trukhanov urged to find compromises and avoid “wall-to-wall logic.” He also rejected the “traditional view” that Odessa was a pro-Russian city. According to him, there were no sympathizers left in Odessa for the actions of the Russian authorities.
“Odessa remains a deeply international city in terms of history, geographical location, economy and culture: it was the same during the tsarist and the Soviet regime,” he said.