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Russians hit warehouse in Mykolaiv at night causing fire at warehouse in oblast

Thursday, 19 October 2023, 08:40
Russians hit warehouse in Mykolaiv at night causing fire at warehouse in oblast
AN ATTACK ON MYKOLAIV OBLAST ON 18 OCTOBER 2023. PHOTO: STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE

A Russian missile hit a warehouse in Mykolaiv on the night of 18-19 October. In addition, the Russians struck a café in one of the settlements of Stepove hromada on the evening of 18 October, killing two people and injuring another. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Source: Vitalii Kim, Head of Mykolaiv Oblast Military Administration; Oleksandr Sienkevych, Mayor of Mykolaiv 

Quote from Kim: "On the night of 18-19 October, at 00:55, the city of Mykolaiv was hit by a missile strike. This caused a fire in an unused warehouse building on the premises of one company, and the blast wave damaged apartment buildings. There were no casualties." 

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Details: Mayor Sienkevych said that windows in at least three apartment buildings in Mykolaiv were smashed. The residents were not injured. Employees of the district administration are still inspecting the area.

Kim said that the Russians launched a missile attack on the settlement of Stepove hromada on the evening of 18 October, at 20:30. A café was hit. Two people died under the rubble, and one person was injured. The strike also damaged residential buildings, premises belonging to an agricultural company and other civilian infrastructure facilities.

In the same village, pieces of a Shahed-136/131 attack UAV caused a fire on the roof of an unused one-storey warehouse building on the night of 18-19 October, at around 02:40. There were no casualties.

Water areas in Ochakiv hromada and Kutsurub hromada were attacked on the afternoon of 18 October. There were no casualties.

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