Over the past 24 hours, 12 settlements in Kharkiv Region came under enemy strikes. As a result of the shelling, six people were killed and 21 were injured.
This was reported by Oleh Syniehubov, head of the Regional Military Administration.
In the urban-type settlement of Nova Vodolaha, six people were killed, including girls aged 1 and 11; 15 people were injured, among them seven children. In Izium, five people suffered an acute stress reaction, and in Chuhuiv a 59-year-old woman was wounded.
It also became known that on 18 October, as a result of shelling in the urban-type settlement of Borova, a 65-year-old woman was killed and men aged 61 and 60 were wounded. On 17 October, in the village of Starovirivka in the Shevchenkove community, a 53-year-old woman was wounded.
The enemy actively used various types of weapons against Kharkiv Region:
- 4 missiles;
- 5 Geran-2-type UAVs;
- 1 Molniia-type UAV;
- 1 FPV drone;
- 89 UAVs (type being established).
Civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged and destroyed.
In Bohodukhiv district, power lines and a car were damaged in the urban-type settlement of Zolochiv.
In Kupiansk district, a private house was damaged in the village of Hnylytsia.
In Izium district, a private house was damaged in the village of Oskil; in the city of Izium, four private houses, an administrative building, an outbuilding and a car were damaged.
In Kharkiv district, a catering establishment, a car, an apartment block and private houses were damaged in the urban-type settlement of Nova Vodolaha; a warehouse building was damaged in the village of Lisne.
In Lozova district, a warehouse building, two lorries and a private house were damaged in the city of Zlatopil; in the city of Lozova, a private house, an educational institution and four cars were damaged.
In Chuhuiv district, a civilian enterprise and two apartment blocks were damaged in the city of Chuhuiv.
In Berestyn district, railway infrastructure, five private houses, a car and power lines were damaged in the city of Berestyn.
Over the past 24 hours, the transit evacuation point in Lozova received 144 people. In total, since the point began operating, 65,494 people have been registered there.