Ukrainian officials in the Mykolaiv region say Russian strikes seem to be getting more precise — making them think some residents might be passing intelligence to Moscow. Officials have detained hundreds of suspected collaborators in recent weeks.
since Russia invaded Ukraine seven months ago. About a quarter of those killings have happened in the city of Mykolaiv, the region's administrative center. Ukrainian authorities say the bombardments have intensified in recent weeks as Ukraine carries out a counteroffensive about 40 miles southeast of here to take back Kherson.
In recent weeks, officials have detained hundreds of suspected collaborators in Mykolaiv, and are investigating if and how they may have provided information that helped Russian forces stage targeted attacks in the area.A destroyed mansion belonging to Ukrainian agribusiness tycoon Oleksiy Vadaturskyi in Mykolaiv on Aug. 4. Vadaturskyi and his wife Raisa Vadaturska were killed when Russian missiles hit their Mykolaiv mansion on July 31 while they were sleeping in a shelter in the basement.
The blasts at the Vadaturskyi mansion awoke their next-door neighbor, a tanned, runner-thin man in his 60s who gives his name as Piotr Leonidovich. Roman Waschuk, a former Canadian ambassador to Ukraine who is now Ukraine's business ombudsman, says he believes Russian forces targeted Vadaturskyi because"he was so key to the resilience of this whole region."It's not the first time Russian forces targeted a high-profile leader in Mykolaiv.
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