Mykolaiv, a strategic city close to the southern port of Odesa, has been under intense fire by Russian forces. Some 160 Ukrainian soldiers have been admitted to a local hospital, but most of those wounded and killed are civilians.
"When the missile hit us, the building started to collapse from the third floor, I was on the second and I found myself on the first, stuck under concrete and my leg broke. But it's okay, it's okay, I'll get over it!" says one Ukrainian soldier, speaking from his hospital bed in Mykolaiv, a key city just 100 kilometres from Odesa.
