A Russian missile strike overnight killed a woman and wounded SIXTEEN people in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, where Moscow has ramped up aerial attacks, authorities said Tuesday.
Images distributed by first responders showed several buildings engulfed in flames and firefighters working to extinguish the blaze.
Mykolaiv had an estimated pre-war population of just under half a million people and was subjected to heavy bombardment when Russia invaded Ukraine in February TWENTY TWENTY TWO.
Ukrainian forces pushed back Russian troops from the region in the autumn of TWENTY TWENTY TWO