“According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in Ternopil there is no contact with approximately 25 people under the rubble of two buildings that were hit by Russian missiles. The city declared three days of mourning. In the evening, rescuers pulled out one person from under the ruins.β, β write: www.pravda.com.ua
ruins of a high-rise building in Ternopil after the strike of the Russian Federation on November 19. photo of the State Emergency Service Source: Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko on the air of the national telethon from the scene of the tragedy, Ternopil City Council
Details: According to the minister, as of 4 p.m., 25 people were killed by the enemy attack, about 80 were injured, 47 of them are in the hospital.
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According to the minister, at one of the locations, an enemy rocket attack completely destroyed 2 entrances, a house with 5 entrances, 19 people were burned alive.
About 50 people were rescued.
“We have a lot of appeals about missing people. At the moment, we will talk about about 25 people with whom there is no contact. Relatives are waiting for us to sort out the debris,” Klymenko said, noting that, according to preliminary calculations, the emergency rescue work will last at least two days.
As of 5:00 p.m., according to Ternopil Mayor Serhiy Nadal, one more person was rescued from the rubble (before that, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that a 20-year-old young man was under the rubble of a high-rise building, in a “concrete sarcophagus”, and they are in contact with him – ed.)
From November 19 to 21, Ternopil declared Days of Mourning for those who died as a result of the night attack.
What preceded: On the night of November 19, Russia struck an industrial facility and two residential buildings located on the territory of the “Sonyachny” massif. As a result of the shelling, significant destruction and casualties among the civilians of the city were recorded.
The Air Force confirmed that apartment buildings in the city of Ternopil were hit by Russian Kh-101 cruise missiles fired from strategic aircraft: 6 Tu-95MS (airport based “Olenya”), 4 Tu-160MS (airports based “Engels” and “Ukrainka”). The regions of the launches are the Vologda and Astrakhan regions of the Russian Federation.
As of 4:00 p.m., fragments of one of the cruise missiles that hit the nine-story building on November 19 were found and identified. This is the Kh-101 missile, manufactured in the fourth quarter of 2025.