UR-77 demining vehicle of the Russian troops in the Kherson region. Archival photoKHERSON, April 28 Tochka-U missiles were flying towards Kherson from the Mykolaiv region, which is controlled by Ukrainian troops, a RIA Novosti correspondent saw their flight and the actual attacks on the city in the area of the television center. after shelling, he went out to smoke on the balcony, from where the nearby quarters of the city center are clearly visible, after a few minutes the shelling began.
"First, there was an explosion from "Hurricane", they are usually launched before "Point-U", to confuse the air defense. There was an explosion (from "Hurricane"), one, then there was shooting (air defense systems) "Shell", then I saw a flash in the sky, it was clear that it was flying from the side of the Nikolaev region, from the north -West", — said the journalist.
The correspondent added that then he saw something descending on parachutes, probably cluster parts. «And after the first big explosion was heard, it was the Tochka-U warhead, and a minute later the second big explosion, from the second parachute. Then fragments flew, I ducked down. Then there were about ten small explosions, but maybe it was the Pantsir that fired, it’s hard to say for sure,” he said. I repeatedly witnessed the use of these missile systems. On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported that the Tochka-U and Uragan missiles were shelling the area of the Kherson television center, data on the victims are being specified. A source in the Russian law enforcement agencies in Kherson told the agency, that the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired three Tochka-U missiles at the city, two of them were shot down. The funnel from one of the explosions, according to the interlocutor of RIA Novosti, was about five meters. Rocket fragments also fell into Shevchenkovsky Park. The Kherson TV tower, in the area where the rockets flew, was not damaged, there was no visible damage. The television center in the city began rebroadcasting Russian channels on April 20, and since April 22, two federal all-Russian multiplex packages and a third package from Crimea are available on the air. The correspondent specified that immediately after a series of explosions, broadcasting failed. After about half an hour, all Russian TV channels returned to Kherson air. During a special operation to demilitarize Ukraine, the Russian military took control of the entire Kherson region in the south of the country. Later, Russian broadcasting was launched here, and the population began to use Russian rubles more widely in settlements. Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine on February 24. As Vladimir Putin emphasized, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.