Mayor of Nikolaev Alexander Senkevich urged local residents to leave the city. He spoke about the situation in Nikolaev in an interview with Radio Liberty.

According to him, the city is shelled every day, dozens of houses are destroyed, 111 people died, including one child. In the city, according to preliminary data, losses of 488 million hryvnia, these are public institutions, that is, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, Senkevich explained. At the same time, the water in Nikolaev is actually only “technical”: people can wash dishes, do laundry and take a shower, but you can’t drink it.

“I recommend everyone to leave the city. Anyone who wants to stay alive does not know when this will all end. To date, according to our calculations, out of 480 thousand inhabitants of Nikolaev, who were before the war, about 230 thousand remained in the city.

He added that now it is possible to safely leave the city, this is already a “established process”.

“During the first month of the war, our city was surrounded by two-thirds and actually had only one evacuation route to Odessa. After our troops violated the plans for the construction of a crossing on the Southern Bug River, pushed the occupiers to the border where they are now, all roads have now opened to us - to Krivoy Rog, to Kropyvnytskyi, to Kyiv, to Odessa.

People can evacuate with their own transport or bus routes, the mayor specified.

Later, in his Telegram channel, he left a link to fill out a form for voluntary evacuation. “Since the beginning of the war, I recommend everyone to leave the city. After three months of bombing here, Nikolaev residents read the name in one of the online publications and begin to panic. Friends, read a little further than the headlines,” Sienkiewicz wrote.

On June 22, Nikolaev was struck by seven missiles, the head of the Nikolaev Regional State Administration Vitaly Kim said .