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Drone attack on Pryluky district in Chernihiv region leaves fire station damaged

Drone attack on Pryluky district in Chernihiv region leaves fire station damaged Photo: Russians hit Pryluky district with drones (Getty Images)

In the evening and overnight, Russian forces launched a massive attack with strike drones on Pryluky district. As a result of the shelling, the premises of the fire and rescue station were damaged, according to a statement from the head of the Chernihiv Regional State Administration, Vyacheslav Chaus.

Chaus noted that over the past day, the enemy shelled the region 46 times. Seventeen settlements were affected. In most cases, these were FPV drone attacks and drops from drones in the border area.

In one village of the Snovska community, a residential house and an outbuilding were damaged.

"In the evening and at night, Russian forces attacked Pryluky district in a wave of strike drones," he explained.

"There is damage to one of the infrastructure facilities and to the premises of the fire and rescue station," Chaus added.

According to Chaus, the enemy also targeted an energy facility in the border area. About 17,000 subscribers in the Koriukivka and Novhorod-Siversky districts were left without power.

"Most have already been reconnected. Restoration work is ongoing," he said.

Attacks on Ukraine

It should be noted that over the past day, Russia shelled Chernihiv and Sumy regions more than 150 times.

In addition, the Russian army carried out an airstrike on the city of Lozova in Kharkiv region, using a guided aerial bomb. This is the first time the occupiers have used this type of weapon in the city.

The day before, the head of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration, Vitaliy Kim, reported that, for the first time since the full-scale war began, Russia launched guided bombs on Mykolaiv.

On the night of October 19, Russian drones attacked the city of Shakhtarsk in Dnipropetrovsk region. Ten people were injured, residential buildings and cars were destroyed, and large-scale fires broke out.