Ukraine’s president visits southern city of Mykolaiv

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the southern metropolis of Mykolaiv throughout a working journey to the area, his workplace mentioned in an announcement on Saturday, with out specifying when the go to occurred.

“The President inspected the constructing of the Mykolaiv regional state administration which was destroyed on account of a missile strike by Russian forces,” it mentioned.

A missile blasted a gap by means of the constructing and killed 37 individuals there in late March.

Russian forces reached the outskirts of Mykolaiv in early March however had been then pushed again to the jap and southern edges of the area, the place combating is ongoing.

Zelenskiy’s workplace mentioned the president additionally visited a hospital in Mykolaiv and awarded honours for bravery to Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych and Governor Vitaliy Kim for his or her work through the 4 months of Russia’s invasion.

(Reporting by Max Hunder Enhancing by Alessandra Prentice and Mark Potter)