MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — Dozens of soldiers were killed when Russian troops bombed a Ukrainian military barracks in the southern city of Mykolaiv, witnesses told AFP on Saturday while a rescue operation was underway.

“No fewer than 200 soldiers were sleeping in the barracks” when Russian troops struck early Friday, a Ukrainian serviceman on the ground, 22-year-old Maxim, told AFP without providing his last name.

At least 50 bodies have been recovered, but we do not know how many others are in the rubble,” he said.

Another soldier estimated that the bombing could have killed around 100 people.

Authorities have not yet released an official death toll.

The military facility located in the north of the city was fully destroyed after being hit by several rockets Friday morning.

Yesterday, ‘orcs’ hit our sleeping soldiers with a rocket in a cowardly manner,” Vitaly Kim, head of the regional administration, said in a video on Saturday, using the Ukrainian nickname for Russian forces.

“A rescue operation is underway,” he added. He did not provide further details, saying he expected to receive official information from the armed forces.

AFP journalists at the site earlier in the day saw the bodies of three people, including a shredded corpse extracted from under the rubble by rescue workers.

A survivor was also pulled out.


We are continuing to count but it is impossible to know given the state of the bodies,” a rescuer told AFP.

Mykolaiv’s mayor Oleksandr Senkevych told local journalists that the city, which had a pre-war population of nearly half a million residents, had been struck from the neighboring region of Kherson, now under Russian control.

For days, the Russians have bombarded Mykolaiv, which lies on the road to the strategic port city of Odesa some 130 kilometers (80 miles) down the Black Sea coastline.

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Ukraine, are you sure you are winning this war? Hmm

What is the west doing or what is NATO doing
The only thing we see them do is use their media to paint Russia bad and talk talk talk without even sending one of their solders to help Ukraine
If im wrong abt this u can simply correct me

Russia and Ukraine should call for peace.

Ukraine has killed all the Russian Army Generals and they are winning the war in their homeland.
I thought Russia is using outdated missiles that cannot explode?

Author267:
What is the west doing or what is NATO doing
The only thing we see them do is use their media to paint Russia bad and talk talk talk without even sending one of their solders to help Ukraine
If im wrong abt this u can simply correct me

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they are offering prayers, thoughts and sanctions.

Ukraine is. Now a testing Ground for Russia

A child that said his mother will not rest, he too will not sleep.

Make peace with Russia

Tooh, Láti Ojú Oòrùn lọ sí ojú ikú.
200 went into endless sleep. Uncle Putin this bloodshed is enough ooo

Russia just launched another heavy flamethrower system TOS-1A "Sun" on the positions of Ukrainian nationalists.

Author267:
What is the west doing or what is NATO doing
The only thing we see them do is use their media to paint Russia bad and talk talk talk without even sending one of their solders to help Ukraine
If im wrong abt this u can simply correct me

They cannot send soldiers sadly... Ukraine is a European alien. They are neither nato or EU, it's being their fate for ages
Both the West and Russia use Ukraine for profits, let's be honest. Before the last president, the previous president was Putin's puppet. The people of Ukraine revoluted against him and putin sent two giant helicopters into Ukraine to airlift the president but not without wiping ukranian presidential palace clean.
Or is the USA using Ukraine as a testing ground for their bio weapons.
Honestly world leaders do not see Ukraine as a country, all this sovereignty cry here and there are pure Hyprocrisy.

FAKE NEWS!
I am in ukraine now and nothing like this happened. Ukrainian troops are stabilizing the whole area. Every Russian attempt to occupy any space in Ukrainian borders are being thwarted effectively. So where are you getting the information that a Ukrainian base was struck by russia? STOP posting fake news OK this forum! There has been no death on the Ukrainian side compared to the russians that now have 1.5million casualties due to the superior firepower of the Ukrainian forces