Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that more than 10 explosions occurred on Friday morning in the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine.
While the Kherson Provincial Council announced the restoration of a total of 44 towns in the province that were in the hands of Russian forces.
The Ukrainian Emergencies Authority had announced earlier that more than 20 people were killed and about 90 wounded, in a missile shelling targeting the city of Vinnytsia, which is located hundreds of kilometers from the front lines of the battles in the east of the country, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky considered a "terrorist and inhuman act." .
Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the sound of explosions in Mykolaiv was heard deep in the city, and plumes of smoke were seen rising from more than one place.
These explosions came hours after a nightly Russian bombing targeted the city, at a time when the Ukrainian army confirmed that its defenses had shot down a Russian missile.
On the other hand, the Ukrainian Southern Operations Command said that the headquarters of the Russian forces in Sneherivka, on the outskirts of Mykolaiv, were also bombed at night.
In the northeastern city of Kharkiv, 7 powerful explosions were heard, caused by missile shelling, during the last night, preceded by the sounds of artillery shells in the vicinity of the city at the villages adjacent to the eastern front line, where points of contact are located between the areas of control of the Russian and Ukrainian forces.
Vinnitsa attack
Regarding the Vinnytsia attack, the Ukrainian army announced that submarines in the Black Sea fired 3 missiles at a car park and a commercial building in the city center containing offices and small businesses.
Commenting on the bombing, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba vowed - in a tweet on Twitter - to prosecute those he described as Russian war criminals for every drop of Ukrainian blood and tear, describing what happened in the city as "another Russian war crime."
The Ukrainian president also published a video clip showing the moment of targeting the center of Vinnytsia, while activists circulated on social media clips showing the extent of the destruction that affected buildings and cars as a result of the bombing.
"There is no longer the slightest doubt about the need for a special court on Russian aggression against Ukraine," he said.
The representative of Ukraine at the International Court of Justice also told Al Jazeera that his country had called on international partners to establish a special criminal court for Russia's crimes, as he put it.
intelligence information
Over the course of several weeks, Russian strikes far from the front lines were relatively rare, but the war swept over areas such as the strategic port of Mykolaiv in the south and near the Black Sea.
On the other hand, the British Ministry of Defense said today, Friday, that Russian forces are advancing slowly westward, following the bombing and attacks to gather information towards the town of Seversk in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, from Lyschansk.
"It is likely that Bakhmut will be the next target once Seversk is taken," the ministry said in a circular on Twitter.
On the other hand, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the United States is providing intelligence information to Ukraine to bomb Donbass using the "HIMARS" missile systems.
The spokeswoman added that the Baltic Sea will not become an inland sea for NATO after Finland and Sweden join the alliance, and issued a warning to Moldova against joining Western sanctions against Russia.