Any attack on Mykolaiv, a strategic shipbuilding center, would be consistent with a major Kremlin goal: to cut off Ukraine’s Black Sea access.
A crater in the aftermath of a Russian missile strike, near the city council building at Kramatorsk, Ukraine, July 16, 2022. AP/Nariman El-Mofty
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