Powerful explosions shook Ukraine’s southern city of Mykolaiv on Saturday morning, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said. Air raid sirens sounded across the Mykolaiv region before the blasts and residents were urged to stay inside shelters. It was not immediately known what caused the explosions.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has accused Russia of engaging in “conscious, deliberately targeted terror” after another in a series of what Kyiv says are Russian missile attacks aimed at civilians. In his nightly video address on Friday, Zelenskiy denounced the strikes on an apartment building and a recreation centre in a small coastal town near Odesa in southern Ukraine that left at least 21 people dead.
