.A Russian rocket strike over night eliminated one girl as well as wounded 16 others in southerly Ukraine's Mykolaiv, where Moscow has actually lately ramped up sky attacks, authorizations stated Tuesday.Pictures released through first -responders revealed many structures engulfed in flames and firefighters functioning to wipe out the blaze." Last evening the enemy struck Mykolaiv. A woman was eliminated," urgent companies pointed out, including that 16 individuals were hurt.Mykolaiv had actually an approximated pre-war population of merely under half a million individuals. It came under heavy barrage when Russia launched its own all-out intrusion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ukrainian powers pushed Russian soldiers out of the location later on that year.However, Russia remains to attack the waterfront city near the Afro-american Sea shore, and over latest full weeks, it has improved strikes on the nearby port area of Odesa, harmful civilian ships and port locations.The Ukrainian aviation service, in the meantime, claimed it had actually downed 12 of 17 Iranian-designed strike drones launched by Russia at Ukraine overnight, consisting of over the Mykolaiv region.