New record of the war

The Russian occupiers launched 188 drones this night. The previous "record" was set two weeks ago, when 145 enemy drones attacked Ukraine. They attacked Ukraine using 4 Iskander-M ballistic missiles and a record number of Shahed-type strike drones and unmanned aerial vehicles of unknown type. The missiles were launched from the territory of the Voronezh and Kursk regions, the drones from Orel, Bryansk, Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk. This was reported by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. As of 09:00, air defense managed to shoot down 76 drones in 17 regions, including: Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Chernivtsi, Ternopil, Rivne, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Odessa, Mykolaiv. Another 95 drones were lost due to the active operation of electronic warfare equipment, and five of them changed their route and headed towards Belarus. To repel this attack, aviation, anti-aircraft missile units, electronic warfare equipment and mobile fire groups of the Defense Forces of Ukraine were involved. Critical infrastructure facilities were hit, as well as damage to private and apartment buildings in several regions. It is previously reported that there were no victims or injured. Information on the consequences of the attack is being clarified.

Rivne

On November 17, Russia hit a critical infrastructure facility in Rivne with missiles. The nearby buildings were also damaged as a result of the shelling. In residential buildings, windows and balconies were damaged, and in some places the doors were broken from the impact. Missile strikes were carried out on almost all regional centers of western Ukraine. The Russians will release 120 missiles and 90 drones. Ukrainian air defenses shot down 140 air targets.

Maria

 Maria was only 14 years old when she was killed by a Russian drone last month.

Maria Troyanivska came home early that evening when a Russian drone hit her bedroom.

"He flew right into her window, right into her room," her mother Victoria told the BBC. Immediately after the explosion, she and her husband Volodymyr ran out of the next room and saw that their daughter's room was on fire.

"We tried to extinguish the fire, but everything was burning very badly," she says through tears. "It was impossible to breathe, and we had to leave the apartment."

Last month, the Russian "Shahed" killed a 14-year-old girl in her own bed in her apartment in one of the districts of Kyiv.

"She died immediately and then got burned," said her mother. "We had to bury her in a closed coffin. She had no chance of survival."

Kyiv

 Consequences of a drone attack on Kyiv (photo from the archive) (DW)

A series of explosions rang out in Kyiv during an air raid alert. According to local authorities, Russian troops attacked the city with ballistic and cruise missiles. As the KMVA (Kyiv City Military Administration) clarified later, the morning combined missile-drone attack on Kyiv became the first such attack in 73 days. For it, the Russian military used air-launched cruise missiles, KN-23/KN-24/Iskander-M ballistic missiles, Shahed/Gerany/Gerbera/Parody type drones.

(DW)

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Children during of the alarm in Kyiv. (Video Yan Dobronosov)

Kryvyi Rih

 

Kryvyi Rih mourns the family that had been killed on November 11 at their home after a Russian rocket hit their apartment building.

Themissile strike took the lives of 32-year-old Olena Kulyk and her three children - two-month-old Ulyana, Demyd, who was 2 years and 9 months old, and ten-year-old Kyril. Only the father of the family - Maksym Kulyk - survived. The city was attacked with a ballistic missile, said Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Kryvyi Rih Defense Council. According to him, it was an "Iskander-M" missile that was launched from Crimea.