Mykolaiv Oblast

Vitaliy Kim, Head of Mykolaiv Regional State Administration has announced that a Russian Kalibr cruise missile hit a military base where Ukrainian soldiers were sleeping. 

Territorial defence fighters have destroyed another Russian Pantsir-S1 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and missile system – the third in 10 days.

Head of the Mykolayiv Military and Civilian Administration showed mounds of Russian military equipment captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and reported on the situation in the region as of 6 March.

The Mykolayiv region local government urges people not to pick up the unexploded ordinance or its fragments. This has already led to the death of a young boy.

In the Mykolaiv Region, Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down four Russian military helicopters.

Patrol police in the Mykolayiv region shouted a famous chant, which has already become a meme in a video address to the Russian invaders.

On the night between August 23 and August 24, police officers in Kryve Ozero in Mykolaiv oblast beat a young man to death, local news outlet Novosti-N reports, saying that the details of the incident are not clear.

President Poroshenko dismissed Mykolaiv Oblast Governor Vadym Merikov.

On June 24, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko discharged Vyacheslav Kryvovyaz, Mykolaiv Oblast Prosecutor, from his duties.