“As a result of the strike of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Novaya Kakhovka, warehouses with mineral fertilizers and saltpeter exploded, and the explosions continue.

There are victims, the hospital, the market and residential buildings were damaged, windows flew out within a radius of 2 km, ”TASS quotes Leontiev.

He noted that the missiles did not hit the hydroelectric power station, the North Crimean Canal continues to function. 

On July 8, the Ukrainian military attacked the hydroelectric power station in Novaya Kakhovka.

The head of the military-civilian administration of the Kakhovka region, Volodymyr Leontiev, said that the hydroelectric power plant was not damaged as a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian military and continues to function.