Eight people were killed and 34 injured in bombings by Russian forces on Sunday in the cities of Otchakiv and Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said on Monday.
“As a result of enemy shelling, seven residents of the town of Ochakiv were killed and 20 others injured. In the city of Mykolaiv, one person was killed and fourteen others injured, including a child,” the prosecution said in a statement.
According to the prosecutor’s office, the shots by the Russian forces damaged homes and civilian infrastructure as well as vehicles. Lock town on the road to Odessa, the largest port in Ukraine, Mykolaiv, 475,000 inhabitants before the war, was long pounded when the Russian army tried in vain to seize it. The Russian noose seemed to loosen there in recent days. The port of Otchakiv, 15,000 inhabitants, on the shores of the Black Sea, was one of the first targets of the Russian invasion on February 24.
