.A Russian rocket strike over night eliminated one woman and injured 16 others in southerly Ukraine's Mykolaiv, where Moscow has actually just recently increase air strikes, authorizations mentioned Tuesday.Photos released by first -responders revealed several buildings engulfed in fires and firemans working to remove the blaze." Last evening the enemy struck Mykolaiv. A female was killed," unexpected emergency solutions stated, including that 16 people were wounded.Mykolaiv had an approximated pre-war population of just under half a million folks. It happened under hefty bombardment when Russia introduced its own all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ukrainian forces pushed Russian soldiers away from the location later that year.However, Russia remains to hit the waterfront town near the Afro-american Ocean coast, and over recent weeks, it has boosted attacks on the close-by port urban area of Odesa, harmful noncombatant ships and also port facilities.The Ukrainian air force, meanwhile, said it had downed 12 of 17 Iranian-designed strike drones introduced by Russia at Ukraine overnight, featuring over the Mykolaiv region.