9 wounded after Russian strike on Ukraine's Mykolaiv: governor

Nine people were wounded after a Russian overnight strike on the Ukrainian port city of Mykolaiv, the local governor said early Thursday.

"Russians hit the city centre. A garage and a 3-story residential building are on fire," governor Vitaliy Kim wrote on Telegram.

Four adults and five children had been wounded, he added, without specifying their condition or if they had been in the residential building.


He did not give details on the strike.

Earlier, Ukraine's air force had announced an air alert for Mykolaiv and other regions.

"There is a huge hole in the ground near a three-story residential building," the city's mayor Oleksandr Senkevych wrote on Telegram.

Emergency services were working at the site, he said.

"At least five residential high-rise buildings were damaged," he said.

At another address "several garages" were on fire, he said, without giving details.

Mykolaiv is located on the Black Sea, about 170 kilometres (100 miles) from Moscow-annexed Crimea.

Russian forces have frequently targeted it since Moscow launched its invasion in February 2022.

On Tuesday Kim said an "industrial facility" in the city was hit in an overnight attack launched hours after the Kremlin refused to extend a deal allowing the safe export of grain from Ukraine.