Leontiev said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are shelling the civilian infrastructure of the city of Novaya Kakhovka from the American HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems. 

“The territory of the hydroelectric power station, nearby territories are subjected to constant shelling, the lock channel suffers, roads, buildings that are located on the territory of the hydroelectric power station.

The market was very seriously affected, where there had never been a military.

One of the missiles did not explode, hit the courtyard of a residential building, HIMARS, it was deactivated by sappers, ”TASS quotes Leontiev.

The head of the VGA also said that fragments of one rocket fell on the territory of a driving school.

The day before, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) fired at the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station and Novaya Kakhovka in the Kherson region three times in a day, as a result of which a fire broke out at the Sokol plant in the city center.