Russian Defense: The attempt of Ukrainian nationalists to bomb a hydroelectric power plant in southern Ukraine was thwarted

Moscow-Sana

The Russian Defense Ministry announced that its forces had thwarted a missile attack by the Ukrainian army on a hydroelectric power plant on the Dnipro River in Kherson Province, southern Ukraine.

"The Russian armed forces thwarted the attempt of the Kyiv nationalist regime to launch a missile attack on the Kakhovskaya power plant," ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a press briefing this evening.

The spokesman explained that this site is of paramount importance for controlling the water level in Dnipro, supplying electricity to Kherson Province, as well as supplying water to agricultural areas in southern Ukraine and northern Crimea.

Konashenkov pointed out that the Russian forces bombed today, with high-precision missiles launched from the air, 10 military targets, including five gatherings of Ukrainian forces in the cities of Parvenkovo, Kramatorsk, Lyschansk and the villages of Povstanskoye and Novoilizavetovka, and depots of missile and artillery weapons in the vicinity of the city of Mykolaiv and the village of Barutino, and the deployment sites of national formations in the villages of Yasinovoye and Krebs.

Konashekov stated that Russian missile and artillery forces targeted 217 military sites in Ukraine today, including 15 command centers and 201 fortifications and gatherings of military personnel.

He pointed out that during the day, the Russian Air Force destroyed six Ukrainian military sites, including an artillery battery, two rocket launchers, two depots of missile and artillery weapons, and three concentrations of Ukrainian soldiers and military equipment.

Konashenkov confirmed that Russian air defenses had shot down a Tu-143 drone belonging to the Ukrainian army in the vicinity of the town of Oktyabrsky.

In total, according to Defense Ministry statistics, since the start of its military operation in Ukraine on February 24, the Russian forces have destroyed 132 aircraft, 105 helicopters, 457 drones, 2,224 tanks and armored vehicles, 251 rocket launchers, 971 artillery and mortars, in addition to 2,123 special military vehicles.