Air defense forces shot down an X-59 missile and a reconnaissance drone in the sky over Mykolaiv region

Work of the Air Defense Forces, photo: Reuters

On July 5, air defense forces and means destroyed the Kh-59 guided air missile and a reconnaissance UAV over the Mykolaiv region.

This was announced by the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Vitalii Kim.

As a result of falling fragments of the downed rocket, a fire started in an open area of the area, but it was promptly extinguished by rescuers. There were no casualties.

At the same time, Air Defense Forces destroyed 24 out of 27 Shahed drones in the Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Sumy, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Kyiv, Kirovohrad regions, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported.

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Shelling of Mykolaiv Oblast

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the occupiers have been shelling Ochakiv and Kutsurub communities almost every day from the territory of the temporarily occupied Kinburn spit. Earlier, the head of the RMA, Vitalii Kim, said that the shelling of Ochakiv by the Russian army has no military purpose, the occupiers are shooting to scare the locals.

At the same time, during the entire period of the full-scale war, the elected mayor of Ochakiv, Serhii Bychkov, never publicly addressed the community or on its behalf. He also did not voice any problem, did not report on the results of the work. All communication between the Ochakiv city government and the population is conducted by his deputy, Oleksii Vaskov, instead of the mayor. Vitalii Kim assumes that the mayor of Ochakiv does not address the community and does not report on the results of his work because he is a «non-public person».

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, approximately 8 thousand townspeople have left Ochakiv. At the same time, according to preliminary estimates of the Ukrainian authorities, about 200 people live on the occupied Kinburn Peninsula, but contact with them has been completely lost.

Earlier, residents of Ochakiv, Mykolaiv Oblast, shared with journalists how they have been living under constant shelling for more than 500 days of a full-scale invasion.

In April, NikVesti visited Ochakiv and showed in a photo report what the most dangerous point of the Mykolaiv region looks like.