“The enemy is regrouping troops in separate directions, looking for ways to gather reserves and conducting aerial reconnaissance. Inspections are being intensified in the occupied settlements,” the army’s Southern Operational Command said via Facebook. Officials describe the situation in the southern Kherson region as “tense,” and a regional military official said the humanitarian situation in liberated settlements is difficult. “Ukrainian police, humanitarian aid (water, food) are entering the de-occupied settlements. The main tasks are to provide people with water, electricity, firewood and building materials,” Serhi Khlan, a Ukrainian military adviser, said on national television on Sunday. Clash in Kherson: Russian security forces clashed with “a group of armed men” in occupied Kherson on Saturday, Russian state news agency TASS reported. TASS did not provide details on the identity of the “gunmen” or how many of them were in the group. Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command described the shooting as a provocation by the Russians, saying they are “passing it off as anti-subversive measures, trying to blame the Armed Forces of Ukraine for reckless street fighting among the civilian population.” The operational command also claimed that Russian forces were “shelling civilian houses, civilian objects and vital infrastructure”, in the Kherson region. Elsewhere in the southern part of the country, explosions were heard in Melitopolis, according to the city’s mayor. “For the third day, explosions are heard in the city. Yesterday morning and afternoon warehouses with ammunition and enemy military equipment, located on the coast of the Molochnos estuary, exploded. “Not long ago, the Russians removed their equipment from the city of Melitopol and placed it right on the bank of the estuary,” Mayor Ivan Fedorov told Ukrainian national television.
