One person killed, 13 injured in Russian attacks on three Ukrainian oblasts

Russian forces attacked Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Sumy oblasts on 16 October, killing one man and injuring 13.

Source: Oleh Hryhorov, Head of Sumy Oblast Military Administration; Vadym Filashkin, Head of Donetsk Oblast Military Administration; Ivan Fedorov, Head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration; State Emergency Service of Ukraine

Details: Russian forces injured nine residents of Donetsk Oblast. The total number of casualties is given without taking Mariupol and Volnovakha into account.

A 33-year-old police officer was injured in a Russian FPV drone attack on the Polohy district in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. The Russians fired 618 times on 18 settlements in the oblast. Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration received 26 reports of damage to residential buildings, cars and infrastructure facilities.

A 38-year-old man was killed by a Russian drone explosion in the Krasnopillia hromada in Sumy Oblast. Two local residents, aged 56 and 58, were injured. They are receiving outpatient treatment. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

A 56-year-old man was injured in a guided bomb strike on the Sumy hromada. He was hospitalised. Overall, 47 settlements in 19 hromadas in the oblast were attacked 112 times during the past day.

In addition, the Russians attacked Kherson with drones overnight, causing a fire in a high-rise building in the suburbs. While emergency services were responding, the Russians launched a repeat strike. A drone struck firefighters, damaging a fire appliance, but the personnel were unharmed.

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