The Ukrainian military attacked the railway bridge over the Molochnaya River in the village of Svetlodolinskoe, Zaporozhye Regionkilling five people and injuring four, Vladimir Rogov, a spokesman for the Russian-appointed regional occupation administration, said the BBC’s Russian service.
The blow is said to have been delivered from the US HIMARS rocket launcher system in the part of the zone controlled by the Russian military.
The Russian-appointed “acting governor of Zaporozhye region” Yevgeny Balitsky also announced an attack on the railway bridge in the village of Svetlodolinskoe. According to him, four people died and five were injured.
The Ukrainian side has not yet commented on the claims of the strike on this bridge
Svetlodolinskoe is located near the city of Melitopoloccupied by the Russian military.
In the context of hostilities, the BBC cannot immediately confirm the accuracy of information coming from parties to the conflict.
We remind you that on Saturday evening the authorities in Luhansk accused the Ukrainian forces, that they hit a hospital in the city of Novoaidarin which 14 patients of the hospital died and another 24 were injured.
On Sunday, Ukraine reported that Russian forces shelled the city of Kherson and they hit the regional hospital, in which one nurse was injured.
As a result of the Russian shelling of the Kherson region, at least three people died and five more were injured, the regional administration announced.
As a result of the shelling, almost 10,000 residents of the “Ostrov” microdistrict in Kherson were left without electricity.
