Nine people have been killed in a Russian bombardment near Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, the city's regional administration said Sunday.
Mykolaiv is a strategic southern city that has resisted Russian occupation and impeded an apparent Russian drive towards the major port of Odessa to the west.
Reports from the area say there was heavy shelling north of the city around Bashtanka.
In the city itself, the regional administration said an airstrike had destroyed a workshop but had caused no casualties.