The Russian Federation attacked Ukraine with rockets and "shahads": there were eight regions under the blow, there are victims (photos)

Air defense worked in Mykolaiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Poltava regions. The attack was affected by civil and energy infrastructure in the regions. Several citizens who received incompatible injuries during the shelling were also known. On the night of September 18, 2024, Russia attacked Ukraine by managed aviation missiles and shock drones from the airspace of occupied Kherson region, Kursk region and Krasnodar region.

This was reported in the Telegram channel of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Three X-59/69 missiles were launched from the occupied Ukrainian territory. And 52 shock drones were flying from the territory of the Russian Federation, in particular from Kurschyna, where there are also defense forces. "The enemy's air attack was involved: aviation, mobile firing groups and units of the RB of Defense forces of Ukraine.

As a result of the air battle, 46 percussion UAVs were shot down," the message said. Five UAVs were locally lost because of the work of the Ukrainian IU, another enemy percussion drone - flew back to Russia. Also, as a result of counteraction, managed aviation missiles did not reach the enemy desired. There are damage to agricultural machinery, beforehand, without casualties and victims. Air defense worked in Mykolaiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Kirovograd, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Poltava regions.

As a result of the attacks, the energy infrastructure in Sumy was injured, damage in the Mykolaiv region, as well as shelling of residential buildings in Kropyvnytskyi, where there is a dead and victim. The Nikolaev ova reported that in the Bashtansky district this night, at about 03:45, a rocket winged, probably X-59, took place. As a result of the fall of the debris, a fire occurred in the territory of one of the agricultural enterprises. Dry grass was quickly extinguished.

The explosive wave damaged agricultural machinery and destroyed the fence, but cost the victims. In the Nikolaev area, during the last day, shelling by Russian occupation forces continued. The forces of air defense were successfully destroyed by four hostile drones of "Shahd 131/136", which attacked the region on the night of September 18. In Kherson region, one person was killed and six were injured, more than 20 houses were damaged, the National Police reported.

Law enforcement officers noted that Russia continues the tactics of terror, deliberately striking the civilian objects of the Kherson Right Bank of Artillery, mortars and UAVs. During the day of the Armed Forces, Kherson and the suburbs were fired. Destruction and damage were apartment and 23 private homes, a shop, a garage cooperative, a gas pipeline. At dawn, the central district of Kherson attacked Russian shock UAVs, loud explosions were heard in the city.

The wreckage from the whipped drone fell into the garage cooperative, damaging the garages and injuring two guards at the age of 49 and 64. In the Cherkasy region, the forces of air defense and radio electronic struggle destroyed 16 enemy drones. About it reports the head of Cherkasy Ova Igor Taburets. The fall of the fragments lit up in the forest, but the fire was already eliminated. In Kropyvnytskyi, the enemy attack is dead. A 90-year-old woman was also injured. Doctors have already assisted her.

Several residential buildings were damaged. In one of the yards there was a fire. The head of Kirovograd Ova Andriy Raykovich reported about it. Over the past day, Russian invaders from different weapons fired at 45 settlements of Sumy region. A total of 246 beats were charged. As a result of the shelling, one person was killed, three more were injured. At night and morning, the Russians fired at the border areas and settlements of Sumy region 37 times. 57 explosions were recorded.

Attacked FPV drones, cabins and UAVs. On the night of September 18, 16 hostile "Shahaneda" was destroyed by Sumy region's air defense, Sumy Ova reported. In Poltava region, air alarm lasted about 12 hours - from 20. 53 to 09. 17. The forces of air defense in the sky over the Poltava region were beaten by Russian drones. On the night of September 18, a civilian power system came under fire. The press service of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine reported this on September 18.

During air alarm, the air line was switched off in the area. Subsequently, during the inspection, the experts found traces of a grassroots fire on it that arose from shelling. They also noted that the damage was suffered by a civil power system in Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Kherson regions. The head of the Kiev Ova Ruslan Kravchenko reported on the consequences of the Russian attack on the Kyiv region on September 18. The area was attacked by shock drones.

The air defense forces worked in the region. There are knocked down goals. There are no hits into objects of critical or housing infrastructure, there was no victims. The fragments of enemy drones were recorded outside the settlements in open areas, dry grass lit up there, but the fire was already eliminated. We will remind, on the night of September 18 the Armed Forces attacked the composition of ammunition in the city of Toropets in Tver region.