The city-bolt on the road to Odessa soon to be a martyr city? Three hospitals in Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine, “were hit by bombardments” between Sunday and Monday, the non-governmental organization Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), present on the spot, indicated on Tuesday April 5.
According to the NGO, “several explosions took place near our staff in the space of ten minutes”. And this, when a team of four MSF people entered the city’s oncological hospital on Monday afternoon. “Leaving the area, the MSF team saw injured people and at least one corpse“, adds Michel-Olivier Lacharité, MSF head of mission in Ukraine, specifying that the staff of the NGO was “not injured”.
The regional pediatric hospital, located about 300 meters away, was also hit in the shelling of the area, according to members of the team on site. “MSF is currently reassessing the deployment of its activities in Mykolaiv,” the statement concluded.
Cluster bombs possibly used
“After the explosions, they observed many small holes in the ground, scattered over a large area. No large-scale craters were visible in this area. These elements could suggest the use of cluster bombs” indicates MSF.
City-bolt on the road to Odessa, largest port in Ukraine, Mykolaiv, 475,000 inhabitants before the war, was heavily pounded when the Russian army tried in vain to seize it. The Russian noose seemed to loosen there in recent days.
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