The Ukrainian port of Mykolayiv has been shelled every day since the Russian attack on Ukraine. Russian units tried to capture them several times. However, the Ukrainian armed forces repeatedly managed to repulse the enemy – at a high cost.
Pools of blood on the sidewalk. Broken windows of the post office. Traces of fragmentation bullets in the asphalt. Shoes whose owners are now lying in the morgue. It’s a perfectly normal Friday morning in Korobelnyj, a district of Mykolaiv on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast.
It was 9:45 a.m. when the Russian fragmentation shells hit. A few people were waiting at the bus stop to go to work. Pensioners sat on park benches next to a World War II armored car. They wanted to withdraw their money from the post office.