The Latest Breaking News from Mykolaiv

The strategic port city in southern Ukraine has been bombarded with suspected banned munitions and is bracing for a renewed Russian onslaught as Vladimir Putin repositions his forces, reports Bel Trew

POSAD POKROVSKE, Ukraine — With an overcast sky offering a break from the ever-watchful eyes of Russian drones and the artillery barrages that often follow, a young Ukrainian soldier joined his squad for a bit of fresh air on the patio of what had been a cultural center.

MYKOLAIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian military was stiffening defenses Sunday against Russian assaults in the east and south as the nation’s president framed the war as an existential threat to all of European democracy.

Kherson has been under Russian occupation since 2nd March. 

The war in Ukraine is being waged on many fronts. From Odesa on the Black Sea to Irpin in the north, via Mykolaiv and the capital Kyiv, FRANCE 24's Gwendoline Debono has followed the trail of violence and devastation. Our reporter met fighters joining the war, civilians hiding in underground…

The ambulance in the footage appeared to be a decommissioned NHS vehicle

A decommissioned vehicle donated by the London Ambulance Service appears to have been blown up in footage of a children's hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said in a statement on Tuesday that its team witnessed bombings during a hospital visit on April 4 in Mykolaiv, Ukraine and managed to take cover and escape unharmed.

 Regional children's hospital in the provincial capital, Mykolaiv, was shelled by Russian forces, on 4th April.