Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, whose trips outside the capital kyiv have been rare since the start of the Russian invasion, paid his first visit to the town of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine on Saturday.
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A video, released by the Ukrainian presidency, shows him inspecting a badly damaged residential building and holding meetings with local officials.
Mykolaiv, a port and industrial city of almost half a million inhabitants before the war, is still under Ukrainian control, but it is close to the Kherson region, occupied by the Russians.
It remains a Moscow target because it lies on the route to Odessa, Ukraine's largest port, 130 km to the southwest.
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