At least five people were killed and several wounded early Friday in a Russian missile attack on a residential building in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, regional authorities announced.
“In a cynical response from the terrorist state [Rússia] to our successes on the ground, one attack hit a five-story building, which was completely destroyed,” said the head of the regional administration, Vitaliy Kim, in a message posted on the Telegram network, adding that the provisional figures represent five dead and two wounded.
In the first images of the Ukrainian emergency services, the destroyed building can be seen amidst the rubble.
This attack comes a few hours after Ukraine announced, on Thursday, the reconquest of more than a dozen villages in the Kherson region, 100 kilometers away, from which Moscow confirmed that it had begun a withdrawal.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, these are “41 villages” seized in the region where the Ukrainian counter-offensive began in October.
The Russian military offensive in Ukraine was launched on February 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin stated the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security.
Moscow’s initiative was condemned by the international community at large, which has responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN presented as confirmed since the beginning of the war 6,490 civilian deaths and 9,972 wounded, stressing that these figures are far below the real ones.
Source: TSF
