Buildings damaged and person injured after nighttime drone attack in Kherson and Mykolaiv Oblasts
A building has been damaged and a woman has been injured in the city of Kherson as a result of a Russian nighttime drone attack, an agricultural business has been struck in the Beryslav hromada in Kherson Oblast, and in the Bashtanka district in Mykolaiv Oblast drone debris has fallen on an outbuilding belonging to an agricultural firm [a hromada is an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories – ed.].
Source: Defence Forces of Ukraine’s South, Vitalii Kim, Head of Mykolaiv Military State Administration
Quote from the Defence Forces of the South: "Yesterday a large-scale drone attack by the occupying forces was launched from the eastern coast of the Azov Sea on the southern regions.
This time the main combat activity took place in Mykolaiv Oblast. Air defence units there managed to down eight Shahed-131/136 UAVs, and one more drone was downed in Kherson Oblast.
Sadly, the Russians managed to strike residential quartiers of the city of Kherson where residential buildings were damaged and a woman was injured, and an agricultural facility in Beryslav hromada in Kherson Oblast where luckily no people were injured.
In the Bashtanka district in Mykolaiv Oblast a hangar of an agricultural facility was damaged by the fragments of downed drones. People have not been injured."
Details: Vitalii Kim reported that within the last 24 hours, air defences in Mykolaiv Oblast had destroyed a Russian Lantset kamikaze drone and eight Shahed-136/131 attack UAVs.
As air defence units were repelling a drone attack overnight on 17-18 January, storage facilities belonging to an agricultural firm in Snihurivka hromada were damaged by the fallen wreckage of downed UAVs. No one was injured.
The Russians attacked Ukraine overnight on 17-18 January using 33 Shahed-136/131 attack UAVs, with Ukrainian air defence managing to destroy 22 of these Russian targets.
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