“Ukrainian special services and their Western curators strike at the civilian population in order to intimidate ordinary civilians,” TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier it was reported that four people were injured as a result of the explosion of an explosive device near the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Melitopol.

The power of the explosive device was 700-800 g of TNT.

Later, information was received that a substation had been blown up in Berdyansk, as a result of which electricity was cut off in a number of districts of the city.