'If Melitopol falls, the entire defense line all the way to Kherson collapses. Ukrainian forces gain a direct route to Crimea,' says Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
KYIV – Ukraine attacked occupied Melitopol in the country’s southeast on Saturday evening, December 10, the Russian-installed and exiled Ukrainian authorities of the strategically located city said.
He said a “recreation centre” where people were dining was destroyed in the Ukrainian attack with HIMARS missiles. Vladimir Rogov, another Moscow-installed official in the Russian-controlled part of Zaporizhzhia, said a big fire caused by the strike engulfed the recreation center. He posted a video of a structure in flames.
An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Oleksiy Arestovych, said Melitopol, a major industrial and transport centre occupied by Russia since March, is key to the defence of the south.
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