2 Russian fighter jets hit military bases, killing about 200 soldiers

Two locations at a military base in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine were hit by Russian strikes on Friday.

One location was documented by a photographer of the CNN Swedish affiliate Expressen, and another building was seen to be hit in photos and video on Telegram about 800 feet away to the north.

The fatalities at the second location is not known yet, but the cable news network could confirm a number of bodies seen at the first location in Expressen.

According to journalists who were at the scene from Expressen, dozens of Ukrainian troops are reported to have been killed at the military base.

Two Russian fighter jets dropped what appeared to be five bombs,” destroying several buildings at the military barracks, according to earlier reports.

Rescuers at the scene used shovels and their bare hands to free survivors from the rubble of the buildings, according to the journalists. In dramatic video filmed by Expressen, one Ukrainian soldier is seen being pulled alive from wreckage.

Expressen quoted one of the surviving soldiers, 54-year-old Serhil, who was sleeping in the barracks opposite where the attack hit, as saying that “of the approximately 200 who were there, I would guess about 90 percent did not survive.”

“Glass flew everywhere. I prayed to God that I would have time to take shelter before more bombs came. There are always more bombs,” Nikita, a 22-year-old Ukrainian soldier, told Expressen.

Mykolaiv, a southern city along the Black Sea, has been targeted many times since the Russia invasion began.