Movies circulating on social media Friday night time captured what are believed to be rocket assaults being fired on the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv.

Russian forces reportedly started focusing on the coastal city, which is close by the town of Odesa, and hitting civilian areas, in accordance to a put up from native politician Vitaly Kim on Telegram.

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Movies posted on-line confirmed heavy rocket barrages with one tweet explaining that the town is underneath “mass assault.”

An area retiree Nataliya Mykolaivna, 64, gestures as she talks to AFP journalist subsequent to a minibus
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Mykolaiv lies to the west of Kherson, which has already been taken by Russian forces, and is believed to be an essential strategic place on the way in which towards probably capturing Odesa, a metropolis of virtually a million individuals.

The assault comes as Odesa’s mayor says that Russian forces may quickly encompass the town on three fronts and believes that his metropolis may quickly be fully lower off from the remainder of Ukraine, in response to Sky Information.

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Information of the assault comes hours after the Pentagon mentioned that Russian forces are constructing momentum as they inch nearer to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.

“There’s Russian bombardment and shelling occurring fairly violently as we converse,” Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby advised reporters on Friday. “And we do assess that the Russians are starting to make extra momentum on the bottom in direction of Kyiv, notably from the east.”