MYKOLAIV – After quickly occupying Kherson in the first days of the full-scale invasion, Russia turned its sight towards Mykolaiv, Ukraine’s shipbuilding center. Many expected the regional capital of 480,000 people to fall next. Major General Dmytro Marchenko talks with the Kyiv Independent in Mykolaiv on Aug. 3, 2022. (Kostiantyn and Vlada Liberov) MYKOLAIV – After quickly … Continue reading General Marchenko: ‘Mykolaiv was to be next city to fall, but Russia terribly failed’