The Russian administration announced on Wednesday that Melitopol, one of the main cities in southern Ukraine, was hit by a missile attack by the Ukrainian army, which caused a power outage.

Melitopol is the Russian capital in the section it controls from the Zaporizhia region, where the nuclear power plant of the same name is located, which is occupied by Russian forces and is visited by the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, on Wednesday.

In recent days, Russia has accused Ukraine of intensifying attacks and strikes in Melitopol, where 150,000 people lived before the war . According to the occupation administration in the city, the bombing hit a depot for locomotives at dawn, without causing any injuries.

The official in the region , Vladimir Rogov, said on Telegram that the bombing was carried out with the American high-precision HIMARS system, and the city is located more than 65 km from the front.

"Because of the fires launched by Kiev, the electricity supply infrastructure was damaged, and electricity distribution was cut off in Melitopol and many nearby villages," he added.

On the Ukrainian side, the city's exiled mayor , Ivan Fedorov, reported the explosions Wednesday, saying he hoped to receive "good news" from Ukraine's armed forces about the target sites.

Russia had accused Ukraine of carrying out strikes on Melitopol on March 27. On March 23, Kiev was accused of launching a homemade bomb attack, which resulted in the injury of a policeman, and on the 15th, an occupation official was killed in a car bomb attack.

For weeks, speculation has been circulating about a possible Ukrainian counterattack towards Melitopol, because advancing towards it and retaking it would cut off the land corridor that Russia occupied to connect its lands with the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014.

To be able to inflict new defeats on Russia, Ukraine needs long-range munitions to destroy Russian supply routes and warehouses.

Until now, the range of the missiles in its possession did not exceed 80 km.

The United States promised ammunition with a range of 150 km.

Ukraine launched successful counterattacks, and the fall offensive in the south allowed Kherson to be recaptured in November, preceded by Himars strikes and attacks on Russian-appointed officials.