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Explosions have been reported in the occupied Henichesk district of Kherson Oblast, the exiled Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov wrote on June 9.
According to Fedorov, a dining room in a local resort facility was impacted by the explosion.
Open-source investigator Benjamin Pittet shared footage and geolocation of the alleged strike on Twitter, claiming it affected the military headquarters that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin visited in April.
Shchaslyvtseve lies on the Arabat Spit between Kherson Oblast and Crimea.

Martin Fornusek
News Editor
Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He also volunteers as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.
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