On July 19, 2024, a Russian missile exploded at a sports field in Mykolaiv, southern Ukraine, killing three people, including one child and two elderly adults, and injuring 14 others.

　　On July 19, 2024, a Russian missile exploded at a sports field in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, killing three people and injuring 14 others. At a children's playground in Mykolaiv, a city in southern Ukraine, a Russian missile struck the area, killing one child and two elderly adults, and injuring five others. The missile exploded after an air raid siren sounded.

　　Ukrainian authorities posted images of the scene showing two bodies lying on the ground. One body was that of a child, severely dismembered and covered in blood, dust, and debris. Another body lay under the rubble at the entrance of a building. A third body was found in a forested area near a residential area. The photo also showed a person being carried on a stretcher and windows blown out of a house.

　　Nearby lay the remains of a Russian missile. The southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv, including Mykolaiv City, has been regularly targeted by Russian military attacks. Mykolaiv City is located approximately 60 kilometers northwest of the front line in the Kherson region. On the early morning of July 19, a Russian artillery attack from across the Dnieper River killed an elderly woman in the village of Bilozerska in the Kherson region of Ukraine.

At least seven people were injured in a Russian airstrike on the town of Chuhuiv in the northeastern Kharkiv region. The Russian Defense Ministry announced that it had shot down 19 Ukrainian military drones over the western Kursk and Belgorod regions and over Crimea, which it occupies. Russian authorities deny targeting civilians or civilian infrastructure in their invasion of Ukraine. 

Warning: The body of a local resident killed in a Russian missile strike lies covered on a playground at an apartment building damaged during a Russian missile strike on Mykolaiv on July 19. Three people were killed, including a child. (Reuter)