The apartment building damaged by a Russian military strike (Photo: Reuters/Viktoriia Lakezina)
Eko Hot Blog reports that at least two people have been killed by Russian strikes in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv.
The city’s mayor, Oleksandr Senkevych, made the disclosure on his telegram channel on Thursday.
This medium gathered that the bodies of a 31-year-old man and an 80-year-old woman were found by first responders in the ruins of the residential building.
“So far, rescuers have pulled out the bodies of two dead residents,” Senkevych said.
The mayor added that a search and rescue operation is still ongoing.
According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, five more people remain under the rubble.
“As of 13:00, 9 units of equipment and 37 rescuers were involved,” the emergency services said.
Earlier on Thursday, local officials reported that seven people were missing after the Russian strike.
The Mykolaiv regional military administration said on Telegram that the city had been hit by eight S-300 missiles overnight.
The attacks mark the fourth consecutive day of Russian strikes targeting civilian infrastructure across Ukraine.
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has described Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “a crusade against what Putin calls the collective West.”
In a pre-recorded virtual speech at the Progressive Governance Summit on Thursday, the German leader said Putin has made it clear that the war is not only about Ukraine.
“All along Vladimir Putin and his enablers have made one thing very clear, this war is not only about Ukraine, they consider the war against Ukraine as part of a larger crusade,” Scholz said.
“A crusade against liberal democracy, a crusade against the rules based on liberal order, a crusade against freedom and progress. A crusade against our way of life, a crusade against what Putin calls the collective West.”
Scholz vowed that Germany will support Ukraine financially, economically, humanitarianly, and militarily.
In a related development, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reiterated calls for an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
He made the call on Thursday at a conference in Kazakhstan, where Putin is in attendance.
“Each of us is feeling the regional and global impact of the crisis in Ukraine… Despite these difficulties on the ground, our priority is to end the bloodshed as soon as possible,” Erdoğan said.
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