KYIV — Ukraine said that “local resistance” fighters had blown up the headquarters of Russian forces in the occupied city of Melitopol, killing at least three officers, as the Kremlin’s troops continued to press attacks in the east and south around the battered cities of Bakhmut and Avdiyivka and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that the winter ahead could be difficult..
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“The revenge action, which was carried out by representatives of the local resistance movement, took place on the premises of [the post office] seized by the Russians, located on Dmytro Dontsov Street,” the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s main intelligence department wrote on Telegram about the November 11 incident.
It added that the attack was carried out “during a meeting of officers” of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and National Guard.
The report could not immediately be independently verified.
Melitopol — a city with a prewar population of about 150,000 in the Zaporizhzhya region — was occupied by Russian troops soon after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of February 2022.
In his nightly video address, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned citizens to be prepared for a difficult winter as Russia steps up its attacks on crucial energy sites, as it did a year ago.
“We must be prepared for the possibility the enemy may increase the number of drone or missile strikes on our infrastructure,” Zelenskiy said.
“All our attention should be focused on defense, on response to terrorists, on everything Ukraine can do to make it easier for our people to get through this winter and to increase the capabilities of our troops,” he said.
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