At least 7 dead, 22 injured in Mykolaiv attack, Zelensky says

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says seven people were killed in a missile strike on the regional government headquarters in the southern city of Mykolayiv.

Zelensky, who spoke to the Danish parliament through a translator, says the strike also left 22 people injured. The Telegram channel of regional governor Vitaliy Kim showed a gaping hole in the center of the nine-story building.

Kim accused Russian forces of waiting until people had arrived for work in the building before striking it and said he had a lucky escape because he had overslept.

A Russian airstrike took out the local government offices in Mykolayiv, southern Ukraine, this morning as people were coming to work. Vitaly Kim, the region’s iconically defiant governor, says he got lucky and overslept pic.twitter.com/NGbycZ9JyH

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