SIMFEROPOL, June 2. /TASS/. Melitopol managed to avoid casualties among civilians as a result of Ukrainian shelling thanks to the protection of the Russian army and the work of air defense units. The situation is stable, but there are precedents of sabotage, Galina Danilchenko, head of the military-civilian administration of Melitopol, said in an interview with the Crimean TV channel Millet.
"Melitopol is protected. The Ukrainian authorities still do not give up trying: after all, the city, especially at first, was shelled very often, but we have Russian air defenses standing here. You know, this protection is like a dome: all Tochka-U missiles that Ukraine launched here, all were shot down, the civilians of the city were not hurt by the Ukrainian authorities, thank God, thanks to the protection of the Russian army. Therefore, as of today, the situation in the city is quite calm and stable, and the shelling has already subsided. Yes, they are trying to carry out acts of sabotage in order to intimidate the residents of the city: they plant mines here and there, try to blow things up," Danilchenko said.
As an example of sabotage by the Ukrainian regime, she cited an explosion on Monday, when two humanitarian mission volunteers were injured. "Unfortunately, we have a case where civilians were hurt, young guys, volunteers who were engaged in humanitarian aid. This, of course, is a crime. I do not know what kind of cynics and scumbags you have to be to go to war with civilians like this," Danilchenko summarized.
On Monday morning, a car was blown up in Melitopol, Zaporozhye region. Galina Danilchenko slammed it as a terrorist attack by Kiev to intimidate civilians. Two volunteers of the humanitarian mission were injured.
Earlier on Monday, a member of the chief council of Zaporozhye’s military-civil administration Vladimir Rogov told TASS that the explosive device was planted alongside a pole in the central part of the city, the executors of the terrorist attack in Melitopol were people who support the regime of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky. The police already has the suspects’ mug shots and an investigation is under way.