Death toll from Russian attack on Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv rises to 4

The death toll from a Russian missile attack on the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Friday has risen to four, the city’s mayor, Oleksandr Synkevych, said on Saturday morning.

One man died in hospital as a result of Friday’s attack, Synkevych said. This brings the total number of fatalities to four, including a child. A total of 24 people were injured, Mykolaiv Governor Vitaliy Kim said on Saturday morning.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said it had launched a criminal investigation into the cruise missile attack on a residential area that occurred shortly after 5 p.m. local time on Friday and damaged residential buildings and a kindergarten playground.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote The attack showed that “not enough pressure” was being exerted on Russia and called for “new measures” to support Ukraine’s air defense and to make Russia “feel the power of the world.”

Two people were also killed in a separate rocket attack in the eastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv in the early hours of Saturday, Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synyehubov wrote on Telegram.

A Russian Iskander missile hit an infrastructure facility in the town of Barvinkove, Synyehubov said, damaging over 50 residential buildings and injuring three other people.

The Ukrainian Air Force announced on Saturday morning that Russia had fired 17 drones at targets across the country overnight, intercepting 13 of them and launching four missiles.