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Polish volunteers injured in Donetsk region

18 March, 2023 Saturday
19:58

On Saturday, March 18, Polish citizens have been reportedly injured due to Russian shelling in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region

Anton Herashchenko, a Ukrainian MP, reported the information on Telegram.

He noted that the shell hit a minibus used by two Polish volunteers to deliver humanitarian aid. Both were injured. 

One of the victims was evacuated by the Life Saving Center to Mechnikov Hospital, Dnipro city. 

  • During March 17, the Russian army fired 50 times at Kherson region, launching 237 shells. Two people were injured, houses were damaged.

  • Later it was reported that during the attack on the night of March 18, the Russian occupying forces sent a total of 16 Shahed-136/131 attack drones to Ukraine – 11 of them were shot down by Ukrainian air defense.

  • On the evening of March 17, Russian troops launched barrage munitions at the Kyiv region, but Ukrainian air defense destroyed all air targets.

  • Three drones were shot down in the Dnipropetrovsk region, but 2 more hit a critical infrastructure facility.

  • On the night of March 18, Russian troops attacked Zaporizhzhia with S-300 missiles, damaging a residential complex, no one was injured.

  • On the night of March 18, the Russian army launched a missile attack on the village of New York, Donetsk region, damaging houses.

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