Ukrainian Armed Forces of Ukraine hit Russian enemy warehouses, positions of air defense forces, and command posts of troops in the South

The OC "South" reports on Facebook.

"There are no significant changes in the Russian state, composition and position of the enemy, but they do not abandon attempts to pull up reserves and regroup, meanwhile giving preference to remote measures of influence," the message says.

Russian rocket and artillery, mortar and tank attacks on Ukrainian positions continued, enemy launched 8 air strikes and 1 missile strike, including on civilian territorial communities along the front line in the last 24 hours.

In the afternoon of September 18, Russians shelled the Nikopol district with multiple rocket systems and heavy artillery.

"The infrastructure of the communities, in particular Pokrovska and Chervonogrihorivska, was significantly damaged and destroyed. Two civilians were killed and three were injured.

As a result of the shelling, two fires broke out in the Pokrovsk community - grass and a hangar for boats were on fire. 1 person was killed," the report said.

An elderly man was killed in the Chervonogrihorivska community. Almost three dozen residential buildings, more than 10 farm buildings, two cars, a bus stop, several power lines and gas pipelines, and a solar power plant with more than 320 solar panels were destroyed.

Nikopol was also shelled, fortunately, without casualties.

In the evening of September 18, Russians hit the Berezneguvatsky community in the Mykolaiv region, which is directly adjacent to the front line, with three rockets from the "Smerch". A hospital and a solar power plant were damaged. The scale of destruction and loss is being clarified.

However, Ukrainian aviation launched 11 strikes on the enemy, and the missile and artillery units conducted more than 200 fire operations.

Ukrainian troops inflicted damageon Russian stockpiles in the Bashtan district of the Mykolaiv region, on two command posts of the troops and positions of the Russian air defense forces in the Berislavskyi and Kakhovskyi districts, on a place of concentration of weapons and equipment near Lviv, on a radio-electronic warfare station near Kherson, and on a pontoon crossing in Nova Kakhovka.

Russians have lost 29 rocket launchers, 2 self-propelled guns and 1 conventional 152 mm howitzer "Msta-S" and "Msta-B", a command vehicle for controlling fighter aircraft and BMP-3.

In Blagodatny and Kherson, 2 warehouses with ammunition of the occupiers were destroyed.