Ukraine's strategic city of Mykolaiv resilient towards Russian invasion
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Ukraine's strategic city of Mykolaiv is holding out against the Russian invasion, in part due to the tenacity of its residents.They are determined to stay and defend it despite incessant bombardment. The southern city is a key obstacle for Russian forces trying to move west from Crimea to take Odessa, Ukraine's major port on the Black Sea, and it has taken a battering in the more than three weeks since Russian troops invaded. A good part of the city's 500,000 pre-war residents have fled -- mostly towards Odessa, some 130 kilometres (80 miles) to the southwest -- those that remain are determined to hold out. In the Kulbakino district, which includes several blocks of residential buildings, the population has fallen from 12,000 to fewer than 1,000.
