Ukraine latest updates: Russian missiles strike Mykolaiv

This handout picture taken and released by Ukrainian Emergency Service on July 14, 2022 shows rescuers working on a residential building partialy destroyed by missile strike in the Bashtanka, Mykolaiv district amid the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
Rescuers work on a residential building destroyed by a missile attack in Bashtanka, in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine [AFP]
By Mersiha Gadzo, Sasha Petrova and Arwa Ibrahim
Published On 16 Jul 2022
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17 Jul 2022
(21:17 GMT)

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issues executive orders sacking the head of the domestic security agency, the SBU, and the prosecutor general, saying that more than 60 of their employees were working against Ukraine in Russian-occupied territory.

  • Russian missiles have struck industrial facilities in Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych says, following “massive shelling” of the southern city in the early hours of Sunday.