Ukrainian and Russian media say explosions near a television tower in Kherson city temporarily knocked Russian channels off the air.
Ukrayinska Pravda, an online newspaper, said the strikes set off a fire and caused Russian television channels to go off air.
RIA Novosti said the broadcast later resumed. It said Russian channels began broadcasting from Kherson last week.
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Russia’s RIA news agency says Ukrainian forces in the Mykolaoiv region
used the Tochka-U ballistic missile in an attack targeting Kherson’s
city centre.
Rights groups say the weapon is extremely inaccurate and must not be used in war.
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RIA journalist who witnessed the attack said: “First, there was an
explosion from the Hurricane [rocket launcher system], they are usually
launched before the Tochka-U to confuse the air defence. There was one
explosion (from the Hurricane), then there was firing (air defence
systems) … then I saw a flash in the sky, it was clear that it was
flying from the side of the Nikolaev [Mykolaiv] region, from the
north-west.”
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The Tochka-U missiles that struck the Ukrainian city of Kherson were fired from the Nikolayev Region, which is controlled by Ukrainian troops, a Sputnik correspondent saw their flight and the strikes on the city near the television center.
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A Russian security source told Sputnik that Ukrainian troops fired three Tochka-U missiles at Kherson, two of them were shot down.