A Ukrainian counteroffensive has decisively pushed Russian forces out of Black Sea port city Mykolaiv, allowing businesses and public transportation to reopen and serve the town’s nearly half-million residents after weeks of constant shelling, the Wall Street Journal reports. “The Russians expected they would breeze into town, that everyone would welcome them, and that nobody would try to stop them. It didn’t turn out that way,” said Mykolaiv Go. Vitaliy Kim, who now drives around in a Russian armored vehicle repainted with the Ukrainian flag. “It’s quiet in Mykolaiv because they are too busy defending their own positions, shooting at our forces that are attacking them instead of shooting at the city. We have pushed them away from the city and keep moving ahead,” Kim said.