Published: 10:50, 18 Jun 2023
UKRAINIAN forces claimed to have destroyed a "significant" ammunition depot in Rykove, a city in Russian-occupied Kherson.
Smoke was seen rising in large plumes as blasts echoed in the region, which has already faced widespread devastation after the destruction of the Khakhovka Dam.
Ukrainian spokesperson Serhiy Bratchuk said: "Our armed forces dealt a good blow in the morning - and a very loud one - in the village of Rykove, Henichesk district, in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region.
"There was a very significant ammunition depot. It was destroyed."
Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk confirmed that the ammunition storage facility had been hit, and commended the pilots for their actions.
Russia has not responded to the attack, which allegedly also destroyed a silo.
Rykove is only 12 miles from Henichesk, a vital port city along the Sea of Azov in southern Ukraine.
The region has been been occupied by Kremlin forces since the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The Kherson region was devestated last week after Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka dam, flooding the region with 4.8billion gallons of water.
The flood poses a further risk upstream too at the the largest nuclear-power plant in Europe, Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraine.
The flood waters in southern Ukraine have been contaminated with corpses following the dam blast.
"Our water comes from the Dnipro - but now the cemeteries are flooded, so it's not safe to drink," one rescuer on the ground in Kherson told The Sun Online.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/22730492/ukraine-ammunition-destroyed-russia-kherson-troops-war/
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