A firefighter works at the site of a recreation hotel hit by a Russian missile strike in the village of Kobleve, Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine, July 19, 2023.
— Photo by Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine / Handout via Reuters
Svitlana Gynzhul walks in front of a damaged house, as her village was located between front lines and devastated by shelling during the beginning of the war, in Luch village in Mykolaiv Raion, Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine, February 25, 2023.
A dog stands among debris of a school building destroyed by a Russian air strike in a village near a frontline in Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine, October 26, 2022.
People queuing up hold plastic bottles to refill drinking water from a tank in the center of Mykolaiv, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Since mid-April, citizens of Mykolaiv, with a pre-war population of half a million people, have lived without a centralized drinking water supply. Russian Forces cut off the pipeline through which the city received drinking water for the last 40 years.
In this photo posted by the mayor of Mykolaiv on his Telegram channel, a residential building is seen damaged following night shelling in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. A nearby 10-story residential building was also damaged. The windows and doors were blown out by debris and the blast wave, and the balconies were damaged. No victims reported.
A Ukrainian serviceman collects remains of a missile at the site of a residential building heavily damaged during a Russian attack in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, October 18, 2022.
Sunflower oil storage tanks burn after strikes by Russian suicide drones, which Ukrainian authorities consider to be Iranian-made Shahed-136 unmanned aerial vehicles, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, October 17, 2022.
— Photo by Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via Reuters
Svitlana Dmtrieva, MD and Head of Pediatric Department of a primary care center and family clinic, inspects her office and her department destroyed by a military strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, September 4, 2022.
Remains of a missile, one of the eight that hit the 121-year old Mykolaiv Zoo during the last six months, at a garden of the zoo in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, August 23, 2022.
After continuous shelling that damaged infrastructure, residents of the town of Mykolayiv fill plastic bottles and jerrycans with fresh drinking water as others wait in line on August 22.
A Ukrainian serviceman stands in front of the destroyed headquarters of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration building in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Aug. 18, 2022.
A view of the headquarters of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration building destroyed by a Russian attack in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022.
A couple reacts after the Russian shelling in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. According local media, supermarket, high-rise buildings and pharmacy were damaged.
A firefighter puts out a fire on a building after shelling in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. - Mykolajiv was the subject of a number of grenade attacks today. These are probably the most powerful so far, writes mayor Oleksandr Senkevych on Telegram.
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.
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.