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Three drones hit Lviv Oblast at night

Saturday, 18 March 2023, 08:49
Three drones hit Lviv Oblast at night

Three Russian drones hit non-residential buildings in the Yavoriv district of Lviv Oblast on the night of 18 March, and another three were shot down by air defence forces, Maksym Kozytskyi, Head of Lviv Oblast Military Administration, said.

Source: Kozytskyi on Telegram 

Quote: "About 01:00, our area was attacked by Shahed-136 kamikaze drones. Preliminary reports indicate that there were six of them.

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Three were shot down by our Air Defence Forces. Thank you, Air Command Zakhid (West). You have saved many lives and much human property.

It was a very difficult task, because drones fly low."

Details: According to Kozytskyi, three more drones hit non-residential buildings in Yavoriv district.

It was noted that premises were damaged, but there were no casualties.

Background: 

  • An air-raid warning was issued in the city of Kyiv and a number of oblasts of Ukraine on the evening of Friday, 18 March, as air defence shot down Shahed kamikaze drones.
  • Explosions rang out in the cities of Dnipro and Novomoskovsk in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
  • Ukraine’s Air defence forces destroyed all Shahed drones that attacked Kyiv.
  • Ukraine’s air defence forces destroyed 11 of the 16 Shahed drones that attacked Ukraine on the evening of 17 March.

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