War in Ukraine. The horrors of war by Mykolaiv

Firefighters work at a site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, July 20, 2023.

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.

Site of a shopping mall heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, May 17, 2023.

Firefighters work at a site of a building damaged by a Russian missile strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, April 27, 2023.

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.

Rescuers work at an area heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, December 31, 2022.

Pavel Salohub, a teacher of history and boxing, talks in front a damaged residential building in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, November 14, 2022.

A Ukrainian Emergency Service rescuer inspects a building damaged by Russian shelling in Mykolayiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2022.

Rescuers work at a site of a residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile attack in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, November 11, 2022.

Debris of a residential house destroyed by a Russian missile attack in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, November 1, 2022.

The regional council building destroyed by a Russian missile strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, October 27, 2022.

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.

Rescuers work at the site of a residential building heavily damaged during a Russian military attack in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, October 13, 2022.

Fire burns following a shelling in a location given as Mykolaiv Region, Ukraine in a handout picture released September 30, 2022.

Men watch the scene and smoke at a residential building destroyed by a strike in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, September 11, 2022.

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.

Oleksandr Shulga looks at his destroyed house following a missile strike in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, on August 29, 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.

Women fill bottles with water provided by a volunteer organization in Mykolayiv, Aug. 09, 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.

Workers clean up outside a building destroyed as a result of Russian shelling in Mykolayiv on August 2.

A firefighter extinguishes a burning hospital building hit by a Russian missile strike in Mykolaiv.

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 school in Mykolaiv damaged by a Russian missile as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues. July 28, 2022.

A local resident collects photos of his family left under the rubble after Russian shelling in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 29, 2022.

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.