In the city of Nikolaev in southern Ukraine, where explosions were heard at night, a fire broke out in a warehouse. The head of the Nikolaev regional administration, Vitaly Kim, announced this on October 19.

According to the official, the warehouse building where the fire occurred is located on the territory of one of the enterprises. It is known that the fire area reached 120 square meters. m. In addition, a fire occurred in another warehouse in the Nikolaev region, Kim added in the Telegram channel.

Another fire occurred on an area of 100 square meters. m at an enterprise in the Kyiv-controlled city of Zaporozhye. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Igor Klimenko, the fire has been extinguished. In turn, the Ukrainian publication “Public. Novosti added that explosions also occurred in the Kyiv-controlled part of Kherson.

The authorities of the Dnepropetrovsk and Sumy regions also reported damage to infrastructure facilities. The area of the fire that started after this in Sumy is 100 square meters. m, noted the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

Previously, an explosion in Nikolaev in Ukraine was reported on October 12. On the same day, the head of the Odessa regional military administration, Oleg Kiper, reported that in the Izmail district of the region, the port infrastructure was damaged as a result of explosions. Then fires broke out and were extinguished.

On October 14, the head of the regional military administration of the Kherson region, Alexander Prokudin, appointed by the Ukrainian authorities, also reported damage to an enterprise and an engineering structure in the part of the region controlled by Kyiv.

Russian military personnel began striking critical Ukrainian infrastructure facilities on October 10 last year. As Head of State Vladimir Putin noted then, this was a response to the terrorist actions of the Kyiv regime, in particular on the Crimean Bridge.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the beginning of which was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24 last year, continues. The decision to hold it was made against the backdrop of an aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.