"The landing force has been destroyed," TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier, the head of the city administration of Energodar, Alexander Volga, announced the landing of Ukrainian troops in the city area.

Later, the Russian Defense Ministry said that two groups of Ukrainian saboteurs landed on the coast of the Kakhovka reservoir near the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

At the moment, it is known about several dead among civilians, another one was injured as a result of the morning shelling of Energodar by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.