War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Mykolaiv Oblast

A Ukrainian soldier stands in a shell crater next to destroyed Russian military vehicles in a field near the southern city of Mykolayiv on June 12. The region is strategically important as Mykolayiv, located on the Black Sea coast, stands in the way of Russian forces trying to reach the larger port of Odesa.

Anti-tank hedgehogs sit in a wheat field in southern Ukraine's Mykolaiv region on June 11.

Invaders shell a residential quarter of Mykolaiv at Monday, 16 May 2022. It is noted that in the morning of May 16, after enemy shelling of the Ingulskyi District of Mykolaiv, on Tsentralnyi Avenue, a fire broke out on the roof of a store and in a Daewoo Lanos car parked in the courtyard.

Pieces of debris hang at the regional government headquarters of Mykolaiv, which was heavily damaged in a Russian attack, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 14, 2022.

The regional government headquarters of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, is damaged following a Russian attack on March 29. At least nine people were killed, according to the Mykolaiv regional media office's Telegram channel.