INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Dozens of soldiers were killed after Russian troops struck a Ukrainian military barracks in the southern city of Mykolaiv, witnesses told
been recovered, but we do not know how many others are in the rubble," he said.Another soldier estimated that the bombing could have killed
manner," Vitaly Kim, head of the regional administration, said in a video on Saturday, using the Ukrainian nickname for Russian forces."A
rescue operation is under way," he added
He did not provide further details, saying he expected to receive official information from the armed forces.AFP journalists at the site
earlier in the day saw the bodies of three people, including a shredded corpse extracted from under the rubble by rescue workers.A survivor
mayor Oleksandr Senkevych told local journalists that the city, which had a pre-war population of nearly half a million residents, had been
road to the strategic port city of Odessa some 130 kilometers (80 miles) down the Black Sea coastline.
