Ukrainian Security Service premises in Enerhodar seized by occupiers is attacked
IRYNA BALACHUK – TUESDAY, 12 JULY 2022, 10:46
On the night of 12 July, the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked a building belonging to the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), which had been occupied by Russian invaders, in the town of Enerhodar.
Source: Energoatom on Telegram; Russian propaganda outlet RIA Novosti; Dmytro Orlov, mayor of Enerhodar, on Telegram
Quote: "Twice tonight, first at approximately 00:40 and then between 3:40 and 04:20 in the temporarily occupied city of Enerhodar, drones attacked the building of the Security Service of Ukraine, which was occupied by Russian military personnel. A direct hit to the building was reported."
Details: RIA Novosti reported that "Ukrainian drones dropped 2 mines on a building near the Zaporizhzhia NPP; there were no casualties."
It is worth noting that the occupiers withhold any information about casualties among their military.
The propaganda publication also published a photo from the attacked SSU building.
Later, the mayor of Enerhodar, Dmytro Orlov, said that the "attack" on the SSU building and the subsequent firing in the air on the streets of the city were a provocation by the invaders themselves.
According to Orlov, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are aware that the invaders are no longer using the building, so they had no reason to attack it.
Orlov suggests that Russian military personnel who fire on their own premises may do this to "justify" the shelling of settlements on the opposite bank of the Dnipro, or to show that they are supposedly "engaging in night battles with the Ukrainian army in order to stay longer in the city and not get sent to the front line on rotation."
Background:
- Recently, the invaders have reported explosions in the cities they occupy in Ukraine with increasing frequency.
- On 4 July, the Kremlin-aligned media and militants’ social media distributed videos showing an explosion at a railway station in occupied Donetsk.
- On 5 July, an ammunition depot exploded in occupied Donetsk. The Russian invaders had located the depot in the Kamaz Centre in the Kyivskyi District of the city.
On 9 July, two explosions occurred in Mariupol - in the area of the Illich Iron and Steel Works and in the Azovstal area.
