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Russian drone strike in Mykolaiv kills 5, injures 1

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Russian drone strike in Mykolaiv kills 5, injures 1
An apartment building damaged after a Russian drone strike on the city of Mykolaiv on Nov. 11, 2024. (Ukraine's State Emergency Service / Telegram) 

Russia attacked the southern city of Mykolaiv with drones on Nov. 11, killing five people and injuring one woman, local authorities reported.

Five people were killed and one 45-year-old woman was hospitalized following the attack, Governor Vitalii Kim reported. According to Kim, search and rescue operations have been completed.

Russia attacked the city overnight with kamikaze drones, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said.  

The drone strike destroyed a house and caused serious damage to a four-story apartment building.  An apartment on the fourth floor was destroyed, and fires broke out on the third and fourth floors, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.

Mykolaiv Oblast and other southern oblasts suffer regular Russian attacks. The city of Mykolaiv lies roughly 60 kilometers (37 miles) northwest from the front line in Kherson Oblast.

A Russian missile strike in Mykolaiv on Oct. 15 killed one person and injured 23 others.

Russia has recently been ramping up attacks against residential neighborhoods in Ukraine's most populated cities. The night before the attack on Mykolaiv, Russia on Nov. 10 launched a record number of drones — 145 total — against Ukraine in its largest overnight drone strike since the start of the full-scale invasion.

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Abbey Fenbert is a senior news editor at the Kyiv Independent. She is a freelance writer, editor, and playwright with an MFA from Boston University. Abbey served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine from 2008-2011.

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