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General Staff Morning Report:
The Ukrainian General Staff issued a report for day 1699 of the Russian-imposed war on Ukraine, stating that the Russians had lost around 2,100 personnel in the past 24 hours, while damage was caused to four combat vehicles, 24 artillery systems, three air defence systems, six ground robotic complexes, 1,636 unmanned aerial vehicles, 332 automotive vehicles, and three units of special equipment.
204 combat clashes were recorded in the previous 24 hours, along with one missile strike, and 273 guided aerial bombs dropped during 82 airstrikes. Russia also used 9,154 kamikaze drones and carried out 3,050 shellings with artillery on populated areas and positions of Ukrainian troops, including 19 times with multiple launch rocket systems.
The UAF claimed that Russia launched 269 drones, of which 59 were jet drones, along with M/S400 ballistic missiles launched from Smolensk and Bryansk, and Iskander-K cruise missiles launched from Kursk.
According to the report, the Ukrainian air defences have suppressed 4 Iskander-K cruise missiles and 243 UAVs, 43 of which were jet drones, but recorded hits at 25 locations, and debris damage at another 8 locations.
Dnipropetrovsk:
One person was injured as Russia targeted four districts of the Dnipro region more than 20 times during the day, including the damage to a critical infrastructure facility in Dnipro city, according to the Head of the Regional Military Administration Alexander Ganzha.
Damage was caused to a pharmacy and a private residence of the Hrushivka community in Kryvyi Rih, while strikes were carried out on the Mykolaiv and Rai communities of the Synelnykove district, damaging a business, infrastructure, a farm and agricultural machinery.
A woman was injured and was being treated as an outpatient following strikes in the Nikopol district, including communities of Marganets, Chervonohryhorivka, and Pokrovsk, while damage was caused to a cultural institution and a private car.
During an early morning attack on Dnipro, private houses were damaged and an 84-year-old woman was injured, reported Ganzha, noting that all services were working at the scene, and that the Ukrainian defence forces in the region shot down 21 Russian drones overnight.
One house was reported to have been completely destroyed during the morning’s assessment of the damage, while at least three more sustained severe damage, due to the Russian attack overnight.
Damage was also caused to a local enterprise and a fire broke out in the districts of Nikopol and Synelnykove as they came under attack by Russian forces through the night.
Russia launched a large attack on Dnipro this morning, destroying part of a residential house as the resident was asleep at the time of the attack.
Mayor Boris Filatov reported that around 30 private houses were damaged in the Soborny district of Dnipro following the Russian drone attack, noting that the local cultural palace and a farm were also affected, and municipal workers had already started clearing the streets of debris.
Two people were killed in a morning attack on Kryvyi Rih as Russia struck a facility of industrial infrastructure with a Bandera-type loitering munition, according to head of the City’s Defence Council Vilkul, noting that multiple apartments on nearby streets were damaged.
Donetsk:
Russian troops attacked a volunteer’s evacuation vehicle in Sloviansk in the Donetsk region, then just minutes after the attack, the rescuer received a threatening message and footage of the attack in his personal messages, Vladyslav Samusenko said: “So at 9:15 they hit, and 9:21 they messaged me – it seems like they were hunting me.”
Rescuers recovered the body of a 48-year-old man from the rubble of a multi-story building that Russia destroyed in an airstrike on Saturday, and search and rescue operations continue throughout Monday, reported Head of the City Military Administration Vadym Liakh.
Private and multi-story buildings, as well as cars, were damaged, along with a vehicle used by volunteers from the NGO ‘Rhythm of Our Life’ to evacuate people, Liakh said.
Head of the Regional Military Administration reported that one person was killed and another was injured in Kramatorsk, while one person was killed and two people were injured in Druzhkivka, as a result of Russian shelling.
Russia launched three strikes on the residential sector of Sloviansk between 3am and 3:40am this morning, according to the Donetsk Police, damaging at least 38 private houses and two multi-story buildings.
Fourteen strikes were launched on Kramatorsk, seven of which were with aerial bombs, damaging eight apartment buildings, 4 private houses, a church, a retail kiosk, a mobile store, a tyre centre, a non-residential building, and two civilian vehicles.
Kharkiv:
Russia injured a 49-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman when a minivan they were driving came under attack on the road between Velikiy Burluk on Sunday morning, Reported Andriy Kanashev, head of the Kupiansk District Military Administration, adding that the Russians also attacked a medical facility in Velikiy Burluk with drones on Sunday.
A 58-year-old man and his 55-year-old wife were injured when a Russian FPV drone struck their car near Staryi Saltiv on Sunday morning, reported the Regional Prosecutor’s Office, noting the couple had sustained minor injuries, and both declined hospital treatement.
Damage was sustained to a car and a garage during an attack in the evening in the village of Tsapivka in the Zolochiv community, reported Head of the Local Military Administration Viktor Kovalenko.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov reported that a Russian drone struck the roof of a sixteen-story building in the Saltivska district of the city, which resulted in two people being injured, while around 30 windows in the building were damaged as a result of the blast wave.
A Russian drone struck the private sector of Zlatopol, reported Mayor Mykola Baksheyev, noting that no one was injured, but damage was caused to a civilian infrastructure and parts of local critical infrastructure.
Kharkiv State Emergency Services reported that two private houses, farm buildings and cars were damaged in the Izium district, while four people were injured, including two children, following a Russian drone strike.
Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleh Syniehubov, the reported incident happened in the settlement of Pryshyb which is in the Donetsk community, noting that a 22-year-old man, a 39-year-old woman, a 12-year-old boy, and a 2-year-old girl, experienced stress reactions due to the drone strike.
Lozova Mayor Serhiy Zelensky reported a massive ongoing Russian attack on the districts energy system, while damaging multi-story buildings, educational institutions, medical facilities, and critical infrastructure, noting that the consequences were being assessed while utility services were working to restore disrupted connections.
Kherson:
Fifteen people, which included three men and twelve women, were evacuated by teams from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and volunteers on Sunday, with seven rescued by soldiers from the 102nd Brigade of the Territorial Defence Forces, stationed in Ivano-Frankivsk, and the other eight evacuated to safety by volunteers.
During the past week, five people have been killed and 67 injured in the Kherson region due to Russian strikes, which included an airstrike on the Khorabvskyi district of Kherson, and attacks on Kizomys, Novovorontsivka, and Beryslav, and damage was caused to the Khorabvskyi district branch of the Red Cross in Kherson following a missile strike.
Ukrainian forces destroyed a training centre for Russian drone operators, as well as living quarters for Russian officers in the village of Khortytsia on the left bank of the Kherson region, while a VIKTORi unit struck at locations where Russian personnel and forces were stationed or concentrated in Kostohryzove, Nova Mayachka, and Oleshyky.
During the past day, Russian forces shelled 24 settlements in the Kherson region, injuring a child, and damaging four private houses, according to the Head of the Regional Military Administration Alexander Prokudin.
A 73-year-old resident of Bilozerka was also injured yesterday, reported Produkin, stating the man sustained blast injuries and shrapnel wounds as he rode his bicycle through the settlement, and is being treated in hospital.
Kyiv:
A 21-year-old woman was killed and two others injured following unannounced ballistic missile strikes on the capital at 11pm, reported Mayor Vitali Klitschko, noting that a medical centre had been reportedly hit in the Desnyanskyi district, along with an impact on a non-residential building in the Dniprovsky district.
Damage reports began to surface of a school yard being impacted by a missile, resulting in damage to the windows, doors, and building due to the blast wave and debris, in a barrage of what appeared to be at least eight missiles fired within the space of five minutes on the Ukrainian capital city.
Further strikes in the early morning also caused damage to the Chernihivska metro station in Kyiv, specifically the station itself, as well as tracks and the cable network, and the Cosmo Multimall shopping centre suffered significant damage due to debris from the strike.
The Kyiv City State Administration confirmed this morning that a 21-year-old girl had been killed and eight others injured during the overnight attacks, while also confirming damage to a second metro station, the Lisova, which was temporarily closed for entry and exit due to damage, according to a report by Radio Liberty journalist Alex Raufoglu.
Lviv:
Local air defence forces shot down a Russian drone over Muravano around 10:30am on Sunday, with debris falling on residential buildings which caused material damage, according to Kozitsky, the head of the Regional Military Administration, who said that there hadn’t been reports of injuries or casualties as a result of the impact.
Russian drones were also shot down over Malechiv in the Lviv community, reported Lviv Mayor Sadovyi, saying that there may have been damage caused by falling debris, and all services had been dispatched to the scene to deal with the consequences.
Kozitsky later confirmed that air defences shot down a drone over Malechiv, which resulted in damage to a logistics company and a warehouse building caught fire, but there were no reports of injuries, adding that debris from a Russian drone also damaged to residential buildings in Murovane, damaging windows and the roofs.
According to Kozitsky, 9 private houses were damaged in total in Muravano during Sunday morning, which didn’t result in anyone being injured, but the blast wave had shattered windows and damaged doors from the debris of a falling drone, as the commission from the community continued to inspect and assess the damage.
Eleven residential buildings, eight vehicles and a garagewere damaged in the village of Zubra, Lviv district, at around 8:50am, when air defences shot down a drone, and the debris fell on a property, but there have been no reports of injuries, and all relevant services were working on the scene.
Odesa:
Russian forces struck a residential building in Odesa, causing a fire to break out in the roof, while also injuring two people, including a 14-year-old child, according to the Head of the Regional Military Administration Oleg Kiper.
Poltava:
Damage was caused to the railway infrastructure of a local enterprise in the Poltava district, reported head of the Regional Military Administration Vitaliy Dyakivnych, but no one was injured in the Russian drone strike.
Rivne:
An air raid alert had been in effect throughout the region during the morning of October 18, wit the most significant damage recorded by jet droned vehicle debris that had caused damage to facilities in the regional centre, according to a statement from the website of the Rivne Police Department, adding that explosive experts are inspecting the area for unexploded ordnance.
Police bomb disposal experts from the region defused an undetonated warhead from a Russian reconnaissance drone that had crashed in a field near Rivne on October 18.
One of the industrial enterprises that had been targeted during the evening attack on October 18 was damaged severely and had suspended operations, reported Head of the Rivne Regional State Administration, noting that no one was injured in the attack.
The Head of the Zdolbuniv community, Vladislav Sukhliak, confirmed in a video on his Facebook page that there were no casualties in the attack on the infrastructure facility, while asking people not to publish photos or videos form the scene.
Rescuers eliminated the consequences of the strikes by late evening, noting a fire broke out at a civilian infrastructure facility, but confirmed the previous report that no one was injured.
Head of the Regional State Administration Oleksandr Koval informed residents on Monday morning that the air defence forces in the region had been active overnight repelling attacks, but despite a significant number of interceptions, the Russians had struck several civilian infrastructure objects and injured two women.
An impact was reported at 9 o’clock on Monday morning by Head of the Ostroh community Kostyantyn Kiryliuk, advising residents to remain in shelters due to the threat of repeated Russian strikes.
Shortly after, traffic began to be restricted on Mlynivska Street in Rivne, and power outages were reported in various populated areas of the Rivne district by Olexandr Koval. while acting mayor of Rivne Viktor Shakirzyan said some trolleybuses had been rerouted at the railway station.
Sumy:
Shostka Mayor Mykola Noga said the security situation in the region had deteriorated, noting that there had been prolonged power outages, and the city had transitioned from in-person to remote learning in recent days: “The Shostka community is living under conditions of infrastructure restoration, which was destroyed by the Russian aggressor,” he said.
During the early evening, power outages were reported in some areas of the Sumy region, as specialists worked to restore the distribution, but it resulted in some trolleybuses suspending service due to problems with the contact network, while the water utility’s facilities were de-energised, according to the municipal enterprise.
Throughout the day, the Russian forces targeted residents in the Hlukhiv community with drones, reported state emergency services, noting that damage was caused to private houses and outbuildings because of fire breaking out, and added that one of the strikes occurred while the rescuers were working, but no one suffered injuries.
Four people, including a child, were injured in the Sumy region, according to the regional police, noting that three were injured when a drone hit a car in the Yampil community, including an 11-year-old boy, a man, and a woman, while the car was damaged.
Ternopil:
There will definitely be no electricity in the Kremenchuk district of the region for the rest of Sunday and throughout Monday into the evening, said Andriy Smagliuk, the head of the community, noting that schools and kindergartens schedules were being rescheduled due to the Russian shelling.
Drones attacked an energy facility in the Kremianets community, and students were being sent on forced holidays, although daycare centres remained open, and parents were asked to bring their children if they are unable to leave them at home, but schools within the community that were not operating were being turned into invincibility points.
Electricity and water supply had been disrupted in the Kremianets community since Sunday due to a drone attack, leaving residents to collect water from springs and wells, while generators were operating on the streets, and resilience centres were open where people could warm up and charge devices.
Vinnytsia:
Critical infrastructure was struck by Russian forces throughout the course of Sunday in the Mohyliv-Podilskyi community, according to the city mayor, Hennadiy Glukhmanюк.
Zhytomyr:
Russian forces targeted critical infrastructure facilities in the region, causing fires to break out at debris sites, and specialists from the State Emergency Services worked at several locations to extinguish fires, but had to keep moving to safe places due to repeated threats, however the initial reports were that no one was injured.
