During the attack on Lviv, Russian kamikaze drones flew over the historical center of the city, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in particular over the main Rynok square.
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BBC correspondents saw at least two drones flying at extremely low altitudes over the center. Explosions and the operation of air defense systems were heard in different areas of the city.
According to city authorities, an industrial warehouse where a fire started was damaged, and two people were rescued from the rubble, one of whom was seriously injured.
Traffic on the street. Gorodotskaya from the intersection with the street. Patona to the ring in both directions is blocked. Special equipment and all relevant services work here.
According to the mayor of the city, Andrei Sadovoy, a 26-year-old man was wounded and suffered an open fracture of his limb. He is already in the hospital, he is receiving all the necessary help.
As journalists from the Ukrainian BBC Service note, Shahed-type drones attacked Lviv after four in the morning – and this was the longest attack on Lviv during the entire period of the full-scale invasion. The drones flew towards the city in different directions.
The attack ended around 6:00.
According to the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Russia launched kamikaze drones from Primorsko-Akhtarsk (a city on the coast of the Azov Sea, in the Krasnodar Territory) on September 18 around 23.00. Five hours later they flew to Lvov.
Previous raids on Lviv occurred on July 6, when 10 people died as a result of the destruction of a residential building, and also on August 15 (then there were no casualties).
As a result of the attack on Krivoy Rog, a fire started in a high-rise building. The head of the Dnepropetrovsk regional administration, Sergei Lysak, reported on his Telegram channel that as a result of a night attack on Krivoy Rog, a multi-storey building caught fire, but the fire was extinguished.
He did not specify which building he was talking about.
The blast wave damaged the facades of three multi-storey buildings, Lisak writes.
In the morning, he said, a Russian drone was also shot down over Krivoy Rog.
Kharkov was also under fire again on the night of September 19. Now there is information about getting into the industrial zone of the Kholodnogorsk region.
10 Russian “Shaheds” were shot down over the Nikolaev region on the night of September 19, said the head of the OVA Kim.
Source: Racurs
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