The Ukrainian president’s visit comes a day after a Russian strike killed two people and injured 20 others in the city.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose trips outside the capital kyiv have been rare since the start of the Russian invasion, paid a visit on Saturday, June 18, for the first time to the locality of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine. . The visit comes a day after a Russian strike killed two people and injured 20 in the city.
A video, released by the Ukrainian presidency, shows him inspecting a badly damaged residential building and holding a meeting with local officials. President Volodymyr Zelensky also handed out awards for bravery in what looked like an underground basement.
Mykolaiv, a port and industrial city of almost half a million inhabitants before the war, is still under Ukrainian control, but it is close to the Kherson region, occupied by the Russians. It remains a Moscow target because it lies on the route to Odessa, Ukraine’s largest port, 130 km to the southwest.