On the evening of September 18, Russian aviation struck a nine-story residential building in Sumy, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SES) reported. According to the agency, the hit landed between the third and fourth floors.
As a result, a man and a woman were killed. Four residents, including a 7-year-old boy, were pulled from the rubble and hospitalized.
The regional military administration clarified that a guided aerial bomb (KAB) was dropped on the building. It reported 10 injured people, including two children.
Late on Friday evening, Russian forces attacked Balakliia in Kharkiv region with strike drones, the SES said. As a result, a private residential house was destroyed, and a married couple — a 74-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman — was killed.
Dnipropetrovsk region was also attacked. Head of the regional military administration Oleksandr Hanzha said that two people were injured as a result of the shelling, a fire broke out in Pavlohrad and an outpatient clinic was damaged, and in the Nikopol, Kryvyi Rih, and Synelnykove districts a shopping center, private houses, and cars were damaged.
The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that on the night of September 19, Ukraine was attacked with two Zircon missiles, 174 drones, half of which were jet-powered, and Banderol loitering munitions. The main directions of the strike were the Odesa and Kyiv regions; air defense destroyed 141 means of attack, and hits were recorded in 15 locations; at the same time, the report said that the missiles did not reach their targets.
Head of the Kyiv Regional State Administration Tymur Tkachenko said that the air raid alert in the region lasted almost continuously throughout the day. According to him, nine civilian facilities were damaged in the Obukhiv, Vyshhorod, Boryspil, and Bucha districts, with five warehouses suffering the most damage; production and garage facilities, transport, and an apartment building were also hit, and in the Bucha district two people were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds.
In Odesa, the nighttime attack damaged infrastructure and an administrative building, said city military administration head Serhii Lysak. According to him, there were no casualties there.
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