Night air attack, 143 combat clashes, battles in the Pokrovsky and Kurakhovsky directions, losses of the occupiers, enemy shelling.
A house in Glukhov seen by a “shahid”
Around 11:20 p.m. on Monday, the enemy struck Glukhov in Sumy Oblast with “shahed” type drones. One of the drones hit a dormitory. There are dead and wounded.
According to the State Emergency Service as of 10:58 a.m., the number of dead has risen to 10 (one child). 13 people were wounded, including three children.
The dormitory building was partially destroyed. There may still be three people under the rubble.
A child of eight years old, a boy, is among the dead, the Office of the Prosecutor General said in a statement.
On the night of November 19, the Air Defense Forces shot down 51 enemy attack drones over Ukraine. The air defense was active in 9 regions.
The enemy attacked with 87 Shahed-type attack UAVs and unidentified drones from the Kursk and Orel regions of the Russian Federation and from occupied Crimea. Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Poltava, Zhytomyr, Sumy, Nikolaev, Zaporizhia and Kharkov regions.
November 19, 2024 marks exactly 1000 days since the start of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine. For this date, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have prepared an appeal to the people of Ukraine.
The full text of the appeal is in our news.
Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports that 143 combat clashes were recorded over the past 24 hours.
Aviation and missile troops and artillery of the Defense Forces carried out nine strikes on areas of concentration of enemy personnel and military equipment, and also hit a UAV control center, an artillery system, two logistics trains, a Zhitel electronic warfare station and two other important enemy targets.
In the Pokrovsky directionour defenders repelled 38 assault actions in the areas of the settlements of Mirolyubovka, Luch, Lisovka, Petrovka, Pustynka and Novoalekseyevka, where the invaders, with the support of aviation, tried to push our units out of the occupied lines.
In the Kurakhovsky direction The Defense Forces repelled 30 attacks near Berestki, Solntsovka, Voznesenka, Dalniy, Elizavetovka, Yekaterinovka and Antonovka, where the enemy tried to break through the defenses of our troops.
More details about the operational situation – in the news.
The General Staff also reports that over the past 24 hours, the Defense Forces have eliminated another 1,610 occupiers, 17 enemy tanks, 33 armored combat vehicles, and 46 artillery systems.
Other enemy losses are in the news.
Despite repeated military evidence of the Russians using prohibited chemical compounds in shells, only now The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has officially confirmed the fact of detection of a toxic substance on the territory of Ukraine near the line of contact. As “Obshchestvennoye” writes, experts have received direct evidence that chemical weapons were used. agent CS in the combat zone. We are talking about the shelling of Ilyinka, which took place on September 20 of this year.
The use of this substance in ammunition is strictly prohibited and is a gross violation of international humanitarian law. At the same time, the organization's experts “do not aim to determine the source or origin of the toxic substance,” that is, they refuse to say that the attack was carried out by the Russian army.
The report talks about a settlement in the Dnipropetrovsk region near Marganets, which the Russians are shelling from the left bank of the Dnieper, and not about the village of the same name in Donetsk, for which fighting is currently underway.
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