Mayor Ivan Fedorov announced this on the Telegram channel.
"Nothing is happening to the Russian occupiers in Melitopol. We’ve already heard several explosions in the city. We are trying to find out what the enemy is up to this time. Waiting for good news from the Armed Forces," Fedorov wrote.
Later, the head of the city published a photo of the explosion.
On March 2, Russian invaders failed to capture the Zaporizhzhia region, but announced the occupation of Melitopol as the center of the region.
In March, the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, said that Russians were preparing to hold pseudo-elections in the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia region.
According to British intelligence analysts, the Russians "quietly" declared that Melitopol has become the center of the occupied territory of the region, admitting that the troops are unlikely to capture the planned targets.
On the morning of March 23, there was an explosion in the temporarily occupied city of Melitopol. Reportedly, "policeman" Serhiy Skovyrko was injured.