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A Russian missile attack against the southern city of Mykolaiv around noon on May 15 injured at least six people, the State Emergency Service reported.
Governor Vitalii Kim reported two hits in the city at 11:46 a.m. local time.
The territory of a car repair shop caught fire, covering 400 square meters and affecting the building and several cars parked nearby.
Mykolaiv Oblast and other southern regions regularly suffer Russian attacks. The city of Mykolaiv lies roughly 60 kilometers (37 miles) northwest of the front line in Kherson Oblast.
48 hours in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s most-bombed major city
The first signs that something ominous is happening in Kharkiv come as soon as the train from Kyiv reaches the suburbs of the city – as two pillars of smoke appear in the distance, every single phone in the carriage erupts with a piercing electronic squawking. “I guess we’ve arrived,
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