Eight Ukrainian servicemen killed in missile strike on Mykolayiv

“Our city was attacked at 05:00. It was a mean and cynical attack, launched when people were asleep. Kalibr cruise missile struck the 79th Brigade, the soldiers were just sleeping in the barracks. By the end of the day, eight servicemen were killed, eight have gone missing, 19 were injured," Chairman of the Mykolayiv Regional Military Administration Vitaliy Kim posted on Telegram.

Data on civilian casualties continue to be collected, he noted.

Kim also said that Ukrainian artillery had heroically regained the city. "There was a command to regain Mykolayiv at any cost. They went from three directions. We fought back, drove them away well, punished them, but we suffered losses precisely because of a cynical strike on the city at 05:00," the head of the administration summed up.

As a result of shelling of Mykolayiv from Smerch multiple launch rocket systems, five fires broke out in the residential sector and at industrial facilities on March 7. The extent of the destruction is being established. According to the State Emergency Service, a man was killed in enemy shelling of residential neighborhoods, and rescuers pulled an injured woman out from under the rubble of the house.

On February 24, Russian president Vladimir Putin announced the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. Russian troops are shelling and destroying key infrastructure, conducting massive shelling of Ukrainian towns and villages using artillery, multiple rocket launcher systems, and ballistic missiles.

Martial law was imposed in Ukraine and general mobilization was announced.

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