Two lifeless bodies were removed from the rubble on Tuesday following the Russian attack on the Mikolaiv regional administration building in southern Ukraine, AFP journalists found.
Authorities in this city near Odessa had previously announced that rescue teams were searching for eight civilians and three soldiers under the rubble.
The governor of the homonymous region, Vitali Kim, warned on his Telegram channel that the property has been severely damaged in a bombardment recorded early in the morning. “We are cleaning up the debris. Half the building was destroyed. My office was hit,” Kim said in a video statement.
Thus, he explained that at the time of the attack there were between 50 and 100 people inside the building, which would have been hit by a missile of the Russian Armed Forces. “The majority miraculously survived,” stressed Mayor Oleksandr Senkevich.
The port city of Mikolaiv has recorded attacks by Russian forces for weeks. On March 19, a bombardment launched from the Kherson region left dozens of fatalities, the vast majority of them military.
Sankevich explained that “the enemy plane took off from Crimea (Ukrainian territory invaded by Russia in 2014) to Mikolaiv.” The Russian Army has launched several military operations since February 24 to control this area that gives Ukraine access to the Black Sea and is close to the port town of Odessa.
“I was having breakfast in my apartment,” Donald, 69, from Canada, told AFP journalists in Mykolaiv. “I heard a whistle, then a rumble, and my windows moved.”
On Tuesday, Valentin Reznichenko, who is in charge of the Dnepropetrovsk regional military administration, said that Russian troops have carried out a series of attacks in the area.
In Novomoskovsky district, a missile hit a farm and at least one person was injured, according to UNIAN news agency. Another missile would have fallen in the Nikopol region.
The front appeared to have withdrawn from Mykolaiv, with a Ukrainian counteroffensive mounted in Kherson, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) to the southeast.
(With information from AFP, EFE and EP)
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