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Russia kills 5 civilians, injures 7 more in three Ukrainian regions overnight

16 November, 2024 Saturday
16:26

On November 15, Russian forces attacked several settlements in the Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions, killing 5 people and injuring at least 7 others

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Ukraine's National Police reports.

Donetsk region

Over the past day, Russian troops shelled 14 localities in the region: the towns of Kostiantynivka, Kurakhove, Lyman, Mykolaivka, Pokrovsk, Siversk, Sloviansk, Chasiv Yar, Shevchenko village, Andriivka, Novodmytrivka, Rozlyv, Romanivka, Shevchenko of Velyka Novosilka community.

As a result, 56 civilian objects were damaged, including 33 residential buildings.

In Sloviansk, the Russians killed a civilian and damaged a company and a power line.

The Russian aggressors shelled Chasiv Yar with artillery, resulting in one killed and one wounded. Another person died as a result of shelling in Kurakhove.

In Pokrovsk, artillery shells damaged two private houses and a garage, and in Kostiantynivka - three private houses.

Invaders dropped two bombs on Lyman, resulting in damage to a medical facility, a shop, a trade kiosk, and two civilian cars. In Mykolaivka, there was damage to an industrial area.

In Siversk, a FAB-250 bomb damaged 4 private houses.

The Russians terrorrists struck Novodmiyrivka with three FAB-250 bombs. Two apartment buildings and 9 private houses, an administrative building, an educational institution, a utility building, a civilian car, a gas pipeline and two power lines were destroyed.

In Romanivka, 11 private houses were damaged by Russian attacks.

The village of Shevchenko in Velyka Novosilka community was also hit by an air strike, damaging 2 private houses and a civilian car.

Kherson region

Kherson, Stanislav, Bilozerka, Sadove, Antonivka, Beryslav, Novovorontsovka, Novoberyslav, Tomaryne, Osokorivka and Odradokamianka suffered from insidious attacks by the Russians yesterday.

The Russian aggressors damaged 4 apartment buildings and 9 private houses, a critical infrastructure facility, a school, a private enterprise, a gas pipeline and two cars.

In Antonivka, a 74-year-old woman who was on the street at the time of the strike was killed by a drone bombing. A private house was damaged in the village.

During the day, the Russian military shelled Sadove with drones. Two men aged 44 and 74 were wounded there, and a 72-year-old man was injured in Odradokamianka.

Artillery fire damaged a private house in Tomaryne, as well as three private houses and a gas pipeline in Bilozerka.

In addition, during the day, Russia systematically shelled Kherson with artillery and attacked with drones. In the central district of the city, a 39-year-old woman came under Russian artillery fire. She sustained a mine-blast injury and a wound to her arm. A school, a multi-storey building and three private houses were damaged.

In the afternoon, a 49-year-old man was injured in the Korabel neighborhood as a result of shelling. Police officers evacuated the wounded man to a medical facility where he was diagnosed with an explosive injury and a shrapnel wound to the chest. At night, the Russians resumed shelling Korabel district, this time the Shumenskyi district was under attack, and a private enterprise was damaged in Zhytloselyshche.

In Dniprovskyi district of the city, a 60-year-old man was injured by a drone drop. He sustained a mine-blast injury, shrapnel wounds to his chest and limbs.

Zaporizhzhia region

Yesterday, the Russian forces shot at Zaporizhzhia from a UAV, used aviation, MLRS and artillery at civilian settlements in Polohivskyi, Vasylivskyi and Zaporizhzhia districts. A 67-year-old local resident died as a result of the shelling of Malynivka.

On November 15, the Russian invaders carried out 464 attacks on 17 settlements in the region. The occupiers dropped 24 air bombs, used 275 attack drones, fired 6 times from multiple launch rocket systems and fired 159 times from artillery.

Yesterday, the Russian aggressors shelled Zaporizhzhia, Odarivka, Lobkove, Stepove of Vasylivka district, Orikhiv, Temyrivka, Novoandriivka, Huliaipole, Zaliznychne, Shcherbaky, Novomykolaivka, Mala Tokmachka, Novodanylivka, Bilohiria, Novodarivka, Malynivka and Chervone of Polohiv district.

The police recorded 15 reports of damage and destruction of private households, apartments in high-rise buildings, outbuildings and vehicles.

A 67-year-old man sustained fatal injuries as a result of artillery shelling of Malynivka village in Polohiv district.

  • In the evening of November 15, Russian troops launched attack UAVs to shell Ukraine. As a result of the falling debris from Russian drones, a high-rise building in Kyiv was damaged, and a critical infrastructure facility in Zaporizhzhia was damaged.
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