During yesterday's shelling of Ochakiv, the Russian army hit a storage site for Soviet-era anti-ship mines. This ammunition was outdated, it had long been covered with concrete, the Head of the Mykolayiv Regional Military Administration Vitaliy Kim wrote on Facebook. He noted that the occupiers had long been trying to hit this place.
"We did not want to talk about it. But I will tell you. Near the military unit, which was shelled for months, there was a warehouse of old anti-ship mines of the Second World War. They were covered with concrete, a disposal site was made so that they would not explode, because it was dangerous, right in the sand on the shore. There were many of them there, covered with concrete God knows when," he said.
According to Kim, the Russians decided that it was an ammunition depot and kept shelling it for a long time.
"Yesterday, two expensive missiles, probably, Kinzhals, pierced a metre of concrete to detonate mines of the Second World War," he said.
The Russian army shelled Ochakiv and the community five times yesterday. As a result of the shelling at 14:08, 15 people were wounded, including a two-year-old child. The blast wave damaged more than 200 residential houses and other buildings.