Battle of Mykolaiv

Battle of Mykolaiv
	Part of the southern front of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
	; Mykolaiv Regional State Administration after a Russian rocket strike, 29 March 2022
Date	26 February – 8 April 2022; (1 month, 1 week and 6 days)
Location	Mykolaiv Oblast, Ukraine
Result	Ukrainian victory
Belligerents
Russia	Ukraine
Commanders and leaders
	Dmytro Marchenko; Vitaliy Kim;
Units involved
7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division;	28th Mechanized Brigade; 59th Motorized Brigade; 79th Air Assault Brigade; 35th Marine Brigade; 36th Marine Brigade; 19th Public Order Protection Regiment; Mykolaiv Oblast Patrol Police; Khyzhak Special Detachment; Territorial Defense Forces
Casualties and losses
Per Ukraine:; 470+ killed; 300+ wounded	Per Ukraine:; 120+ killed; 8 missing; 133+ wounded; Frigate Hetman Sahaidachny scuttled
	128+ civilians killed, 545+ wounded; 250,000 civilians evacuated

The battle of Mykolaiv started on the night of 26 February 2022, as part of the southern Ukraine campaign during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It ended with Russian forces being repulsed from the city in March, and by April all but a few of its surrounding villages were back under Ukrainian control.

Mykolaiv is a strategically important shipbuilding and port city on the Black Sea and on 4 March was "seen as the next key stepping-stone for Russian forces on the road to Odesa."