Ukrainian officials have accused Russian troops of firing missiles at an apartment building in the city of Mykolaiv, killing three people and wounding five others.
Mykolaiv mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said Russian troops fired eight missiles at the southwestern city. Ukraine During the June 28 raid. At least three people were killed and five wounded when an apartment building was hit by a Kh-55 cruise missile during the raid, Senkevych said.
The Nikolayev emergency team launched an effort to rescue the survivors. It was not immediately clear how many people were there when the apartment complex was ambushed.
Video released by Ukraine’s emergency response service showed an apartment building on the top floor partially destroyed, with the remaining three floors almost intact. Ukrainian rescuers had to go through the debris into the building and remove an injured colleague from the scene.
On June 28, the scene of an apartment building in Mykolaiv that was suspected of being hit by a Russian missile. video: DSNSU.
Ministry of Defense Russia On June 29, it was announced that the country’s air force used high-precision missiles to destroy “a training base for foreign mercenaries near the city of Nikolayev”, as well as an oil depot and two ammunition depots in the province. . Nikolayev is the Russian name for the place Nikolayev.
The Russian Defense Ministry has yet to comment on the news that the Mykolaiv city apartment building was hit by the missile.
In recent days, Russia has launched multiple missile attacks on targets in Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities on June 26 accused Russia of launching a missile attack that destroyed at least two residential apartments and a kindergarten in Kyiv.
However, the Russian Ministry of Defense claims Ukrainian anti-aircraft missiles shoot each other and fell, damaging buildings in Kyiv.
Ukraine also claims that Russia fired a missile at the Amstor shopping mall in the central city of Kremenchuk, killing at least 18 people and leaving 36 missing.
They also released a video showing Russian missiles plummet Near the road equipment storage yard in Kremenchuk, about 500 meters from Amstor shopping center.
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that Russian troops fired missiles at the “arms and ammunition depot on the grounds of the road machinery factory” in Kremenchuk, where Western weapons were transferred to Ukraine. “Ammunition exploded here, causing a fire in a defunct shopping mall next to the factory,” the agency explained.

Location Mykolai City, Ukraine. Graphics: Washington post.
Since the start of the special military operation at the end of February, the Russian military has regularly used cruise and ballistic missiles to attack positions of the Ukrainian armed forces as well as defense factories and installations. Western industrial facilities and arsenals have also been transferred to the country.
U.S. officials said in late May that Russia had fired as many as 1,500 missiles in the three months after the conflict, estimating the Russian-Ukrainian war as a time when rocket launchers were operating at their highest capacity since World War II.
Western experts believe the latest attack proves that Russia is capable of striking any part of Ukraine, although Moscow has turned its attention to the battlefield in eastern Ukraine.
Nguyen Jin (follow Reuters)