Russo-Ukraine war: Mayor of southern Ukrainian town injured

The Russian's appointed Mayor of the small town of Enerhodar in southern Ukraine was seriously injured in an explosive attack on Sunday, local military forces announced.

"The self-proclaimed head of the 'people's administration' of Enerhodar, Andrei Shevchik, has been injured by an explosion at the entrance to the apartment building where his mother lives.''

The Ukrainian military administration of the Zaporizhzhia region posted on its Telegram channel late on Sunday.

"It was a targeted partisan attack against a collaborator,'' it added.

According to media reports, Shevchik is in intensive care.

His bodyguards were also injured in the attack.

According to the Ukrainian military administration, the Russian occupation forces are now searching for two young men in a red Audi car.

They have also strengthened the checkpoints.

The Russian Investigative Committee said on Monday that it had opened a criminal case for the Ukrainian nationalists' crime.

Europe's most powerful nuclear power plant is located in Enerhodar.

The small town in the south of the Zaporizhzhia region was occupied by Russian troops in the very first days of the war.

During the fighting, a fire broke out briefly on the site of the nuclear power plant but was extinguished.

The regional capital Zaporizhzhia itself was still under Ukrainian control.