🔧 Sabotage

Explosions occurred in occupied Melitopol, possibly caused by partisan activity or long-range Ukrainian strikes.

Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia
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Explosions occurred in occupied Melitopol, possibly caused by partisan activity or long-range Ukrainian strikes.

Russian servicemen began to take their families out of Melitopol after active work by the Armed forces of Ukraine last week.

Russian occupiers will not have the time to repair heating infrastructure by the beginning of winter, leaving residents without heat.

95% of Melitopol's heating comes from gas, and the city has been without it for three weeks as of mid-August 2022.

Russian occupiers started taking their families out of Melitopol because they understand they will soon have to leave the city quickly.

The occupiers damaged the equipment of the ZNPP: there is a high risk of spraying radioactive substances and fire.

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Extracted: 2026-07-18T16:57:30.963Z

Source story: day-173-2023-02-12