The Latest Breaking News from Mykolaiv

The Battle for the Black Sea

Russia and Ukraine are vying to control vital grain routes, but who will win?

Al Jazeera · Jun 28, 2022

Russian navy ordered to lay mines at Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, says US

Intelligence claims operation is part of Russia’s blockade of grain exports, which threatens to trigger global famine

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2022

Explosions heard in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv - mayor

Explosions were heard in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv on Thursday, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said, urging residents to take shelter.

Reuters · Jun 23, 2022

Ukraine president praises troops in visit to southern front line

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has paid another visit to troops on the front lines of Ukraine's war against Russia, praising soldiers holding forward positions as brave and hard-working and vowing the country will prevail.

Reuters · Jun 18, 2022

Analysis-Ukrainian dreams of retaking Kherson hinge on Western weapons

For the Ukrainian soldiers fighting to retake ground in the wheat fields and empty villages northwest of the city of Kherson, the liberation of one of Ukraine's most strategically important Black Sea cities feels tantalisingly close.

Reuters · Jun 15, 2022

First Brit to die fighting in Ukraine was killed by Russian mortar strike, inquest hears

Scott Sibley, 36, from Grimsby, Lincolnshire, became the first British soldier to die fighting in Ukraine when he was killed by a mortar shell in the village of Lymany in the Mykolaiv region

Daily Mirror · Jun 14, 2022

Ukraine's besieged farmers fear war-time harvest 'hell'

As 10-metre high mounds of sunflower meal smoulder among the blackened ruins of one of Ukraine's top agricultural terminals, farmers in this front-line region are scrambling to survive a harvest under Russian fire.

Reuters · Jun 14, 2022

Western artillery already making difference for Ukraine -regional governor

Western-supplied artillery systems are already making a difference on the ground for Ukraine and it is "just a question of time" before its forces win back significant ground in the south, the governor of the Mykolaiv region said on Wednesday.

Reuters · Jun 8, 2022

Russia attacking Ukraine food targets to scare world, says regional governor

Russia is attacking food and agriculture targets in Ukraine in order to scare the world into agreeing a deal to reopen the Black Sea on Moscow's terms, the head of the region where a major agricultural storage facility was struck on Sunday said.

Reuters · Jun 8, 2022

Russian attack destroys warehouses of major Ukrainian commodity terminal, governor says

Russian shelling destroyed the warehouses of one of Ukraine's largest agricultural commodities terminals in the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv over the weekend, the head of the region said on Tuesday.

Reuters · Jun 7, 2022