Victory Banner raised over the central square of Melitopol. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 30.Melitopol Mayor Galina Danilchenko called the explosion in the city a cynical terrorist act by the Kyiv regime, aimed at intimidating civilians, because Kyiv cannot accept their choice in favor of Russia.Earlier, Melitopol authorities The Zaporozhye region has qualified a car explosion in the city center as a terrorist attack, the city administration said in a statement.»It was a cynical terrorist act by the Kyiv regime, an act aimed at intimidating the inhabitants of our city, an act directed against the civilians of the city, because it was the civilians who suffered,» Melitopol confirmed the data on two victims,» she said. on the air of Rossiya 24. «This is a terrible situation, and the Kyiv regime cannot calm down with the fact that the inhabitants of Melitopol no longer want to have anything to do with this Kyiv government from the past, we want to live a new life, a different life, a peaceful life» , she stressed. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. During the special operation, the Russian military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region in southern Ukraine. Civil-military administrations have been formed in the regions, Russian TV channels and radio stations have begun broadcasting, and trade ties with Crimea are being restored. distribution of humanitarian aid, the source said
