“Russian tanks entered, we destroyed them all”

Nikolayev is one of the cities most affected by Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine. The biggest rocket hit the city on March 29 at 08:45. Russia The missile fired from the side destroyed the 9-storey building of the Nikolaev regional administration from the first floor to the eighth floor. Twelve people were killed and 33 were injured. School near the administrative building, music school and residential houses are also full and partially damaged.

The administration building will be completely demolished as it is completely unusable. It is unknown whether the new building will be built there.

At the time of the incident, people were starting to come to work. City residents say that, If the rocket had been fired a little later, the death toll could have been higher.

The head of the Nikolaev regional administration Vitaly Kim wrote in a telegram that, The shell hit his office.

In an interview with Current Time, Nikolaev Mayor Alexander Senkevich confirmed that the building was hit by a cruise missile. “It simply came to our notice then that, The target was the fourth floor of the office of the head of the administration Vitaly Kim “.

Nikolaev is one of the strategic targets of the Russian army, and it is extremely important to capture the city in order to advance towards Odessa. Still that, their attempt failed. The city is now a backyard. Fighting is taking place in certain areas. Local residents say that, Although Russian tanks entered the city center in early March, they were all destroyed.

In Nikolayev, as in other Ukrainian cities under attack, rockets were fired at residential buildings. Many people were evacuated from here. An alarm is sounded in the city from time to time that, let people go to shelters to insure themselves against danger.