“Anti-aircraft defense worked in the Mykolaiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Poltava regions”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
The Ukrainian military managed to shoot down 46 attack UAVs. “In addition, due to the active countermeasures of the EW means of the Defense Forces of Ukraine, five UAVs were lost in location, one more enemy attack drone flew to Russia. Also, as a result of countermeasures, the guided air missiles did not reach the targets desired by the enemy. There is damage to agricultural machinery, previously, there were no victims or victims,” the message says.
Anti-aircraft defense worked in the Mykolaiv, Kherson, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Poltava regions, the Air Force added.
Meanwhile, the head of the Kirovohrad Regional Military Administration, Andrii Raykovich, reported that in Kropyvnytskyi on the night of September 18, a Russian attack damaged several residential buildings and killed a person.
According to him, a 90-year-old woman also received minor injuries – she was treated and did not need hospitalization.
In Sumy OVA, it was reported that on the night of September 18, Russian troops carried out an airstrike on energy facilities in the city of Sumy, using Shahed-type drones.
The leadership of Russia denies that the Russian army during a full-scale war inflicts targeted strikes on the civilian infrastructure of the cities and villages of Ukraine, killing the civilian population and destroying hospitals, schools, kindergartens, energy and water supply facilities.
The Ukrainian authorities and international organizations qualify these strikes as war crimes by the Russian Federation and emphasize that they are purposeful in nature.