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Russia unleashes drones on southern Ukraine, fire reported in Mykolaiv

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Russian forces launched drone attacks on Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson oblasts overnight on July 18, according to the Southern Operational Command update.

Several waves of drone attacks have been recorded.

Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych said via his official Telegram channel that a fire was reported in the city following the attack. First responders were called to the scene, according to the mayor. He did not provide any further information.

Numerous explosions were also reported in the southern port city of Odesa, while regional Governor Oleh Kiper urged residents to remain in shelters.

Southern Ukraine, especially Mykolaiv and Kherson oblasts, frequently come under Russian strikes.

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Olena Goncharova

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Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent, where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent. She first joined the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper, as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018. She is based in Edmonton, Alberta. Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv. Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months. The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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