MOSCOW —
Kremlin-installed authorities in Ukraine’s
southern region of Kherson said Tuesday that power had been fully restored to
its main city, after blaming Kyiv for attacks that disrupted water and
electricity supplies.
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Kherson city was the first urban hub to be captured
by Russia after Moscow announced its “special military operation” in February
and it has suffered outages after strikes Sunday for which Moscow and Kyiv have
traded blame.
“There is
electricity, despite sabotage and attacks,” Kirill Stremousov, the
Russian-appointed deputy head of the Kherson region said on social media
Tuesday.
Ukraine troops have been pushing closer towards the
city in recent months and its capture by Kyiv would be a significant defeat for
Moscow.
The news Sunday of the outages followed reports from
Russian officials that the Kakhovka dam, also in Kherson, had been damaged by a
Ukrainian strike.
The dam supplies the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow
annexed in 2014 and was used as a launching pad for the beginning of the
campaign in Ukraine.
Separately, the
Russian security services (FSB)
announced the arrest of nine members of an “intelligence and sabotage group” of
Ukraine’s forces.
The FSB said in a statement that the group allegedly
planned attacks against senior Russian-installed officials working in Kherson.
Explosives, grenades, ammunition, and a car bomb
were seized during the arrests and an investigation into “international
terrorism” was opened, the FSB said.
As Ukraine presses a counteroffensive in the south,
Moscow’s forces have said they are turning Kherson into a “fortress”.
They have for weeks organized a civilian pullout
from the Kherson region as Ukrainian troops advance, which Kyiv labels
“deportations”.
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