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| Russians attack Odesa Oblast with drones, Mykolaiv Oblast with artillery, Sumy Oblast with mortars, OVA |
| 2023-11-18 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [LB] Zaporizhia, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Luhansk, Donetsk, Khmelnytskyi were also attacked. by Iryna Lysohor In the Khmelnytskyi region, air defense was working yesterday during the morning air alert. As a result of the downing of one of the air targets, debris damaged a truck. The driver received minor injuries. In addition, there is damage from debris on the territory of food warehouses. Damages are being assessed, says the summary from OVA as of this morning. There were three shellings (15 explosions) on Chernihivska during the day. The enemy fired mortars in the Novgorod-Siverskyi and Koryukivskyi districts. No information was received about losses among the local population or damage to civil infrastructure. The data is being verified. At night , along Sumy , the Russians launched a mortar attack on the Yunakiv community. Three explosions were recorded. In advance - without consequences. Yesterday, during the day, the Russians carried out 10 shelling of the border territories and settlements of the Sumy region. 70 explosions were recorded. The communities of Krasnopilsk, Myropilsk, Velikopysarivsk, Esmansk, and Druzhbivsk came under fire. No consequences. During the day, the enemy fired 58 rounds (347 shells) at Khersonska , including five rounds (43 shells) at Kherson. The Rashists targeted the districts of 22 settlements of the region; administrative buildings and a store in the Kherson district; a medical institution, a shop, gas stations and a car wash in Kherson. Yesterday, the enemy hit the Ship district of Kherson. As a result of another shelling, two people from Kherson were injured. A 68-year-old man received non-life-threatening injuries. He was in the building at the time of the enemy attack. A 54-year-old woman was taken to the hospital by ambulance. The victims are being assisted. Also yesterday, the Russian army massively struck Bilozerka. Two people died, three others were injured. Residential buildings and a grocery store were damaged by enemy fire. A critical infrastructure facility was also destroyed. Currently, Bilozerka and the surrounding villages are without electricity. As a result of massive artillery shelling of Kherson yesterday, three were killed and six were wounded. The enemy hit the residential quarters of the Central and Dniprovsky districts of the city. Houses, cars, a gas station and a car wash were damaged. The youngest injured is a 15-year-old child. She came under fire together with her relative, 52 years old. Both victims were hospitalized. Due to Russian shelling, Kherson has been partially cut off. Some areas of the city remained without electricity. During the day in the region: six people died, another 10 were injured. Later, OVA clarified that two wounded people died in the hospital, another woman died as a result of night attacks. In Luhansk yesterday, the enemy unsuccessfully tried to storm our positions in Bilogorivka. The Russians are not successful in the Serebrian Forest either, so they almost always carry out air raids there. During the day, the enemy fired 137 rounds (531 shells). In Kharkivska , the enemy shelled Kupyansk-Vuzlovy during the night, a farm building of 50 square meters was on fire. There are no casualties. The enemy also shelled Kupyansk, three private houses and two farm buildings were damaged. Yesterday, the enemy struck a KAB attack on Borova. The buildings of the State Fire and Rescue Department and two cars were damaged. In Zaporizhzhia there were 118 strikes per day - the Rashists opened fire on 21 settlements. 96 artillery shells hit the territory of Gulyaipol, Zaliznychny, Novoandriyivka, Shcherbaki, Lugivskyi, Kamianskyi, Pyatikhatok, Lobkovo, Plavniv, Primorskyi and other towns and villages in the line of fire. The enemy carried out three missile strikes on Robotyn and Novodarivka, 14 attacks from a drone on Gulyaipol, Malya Tokmachka, Poltavak, Charivny, Levadny, Lugivskyi, Maly Shcherbaky and Stepovoy, as well as five attacks from rocket systems of volley fire on Robotyn, Malya Tokmachka, Novodarivtsi and Temyrivtsi. 24 reports were received about the destruction of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities. Civilians were not injured. In Dnipropetrovsk, more than 15 enemy shells flew into the Nikopol district yesterday. The aggressor launched two shellings - hitting Nikopol itself and the Marganets community with heavy artillery. The power line was damaged. At night, the Russian army again attacked the area. The enemy first aimed at the district center from the artillery. Then - from one of the villages of the Marganets community. There were no deaths or injuries. In Donetsk, eight settlements were under the fire of last-day raids: Avdiivka, Kurakhove, Toretsk, Pokrovsk, Antonivka, Orlivka, Solovyove. A residential building, a heating network, a transformer, a 35 kW power network, a warehouse, a shop were damaged. In one day in Donetsk region: two wounded. In the Odesa region, the enemy attacked with ten Shahed type UAVs at night. As a result of combat work, nine enemy attack UAVs were destroyed within several regions, including Odesa. In Mykolayivska , forces and means of air defense destroyed an attack UAV of the Shahed-136/131 type at night. Yesterday, enemy shelling was recorded on the open territory of the villages of Solonchaky and Dmytrivka of the Kutsurub community. There are no casualties. Ochakiv was also under artillery fire yesterday. No casualties. We will remind you that the Defense Forces are continuing their assault south of Bakhmut , inflicting losses on the enemy, and are entrenched at the achieved boundaries. In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy carried out assaults in the Ivanivskyi, Klishchiivka and Andriivka areas, where Ukrainian soldiers repelled 18 attacks. During the past day, 72 combat clashes took place at the front. In total, the enemy carried out 12 missile and 47 air strikes, carried out 38 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the positions of our troops and populated areas. |
| Posted by:badanov |