Russian attack on Ternopil: 25 killed, including 3 children, and 66 injured – photos
Twenty-five people, including three children, have been killed and 73 injured in a combined Russian attack on the city of Ternopil, according to the latest reports.
Source: Office of the Prosecutor General; Serhii Danilin, spokesperson for the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service (SES) in Ternopil Oblast, in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda; Ukraine's National Police
Updated: The Ministry of Internal Affairs, citing updated reports, said that as of 15:00, 25 people, including three children, had been killed in the attack.
Another 73 people, including 15 children, have sustained injuries.
Details: Earlier, Danilin told Ukrainska Pravda that people had been killed in Ternopil at two locations.
Quote from Danilin: "This is the total number of fatalities across the two locations in the city of Ternopil. In one, the upper floors of a nine-storey building were struck, causing significant destruction. At the other location, there was no major destruction, but a large fire broke out."
More details: The Prosecutor General's Office specified that missiles and drones had hit two residential buildings on Stusa Street and 15 Kvitnia Street in Ternopil and damaged an industrial facility.
Investigative and operational teams and the State Emergency Service are working at the scene and firefighting operations are ongoing.
Content warning: This report contains some distressing images.
Background:
- On the morning of 19 November, Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles. Explosions were heard in Khmelnytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.
- A multi-storey residential building had been destroyed in Ternopil as a result of the Russian attack.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later reported that nine people had been killed and dozens injured in Russia's large-scale combined strike on Ukraine on the night of 18-19 November and the morning of 19 November. Russia launched over 470 attack UAVs and 48 missiles of various types to strike Ukraine.
- Later, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported that ten people had been killed and thirty-seven injured in Ternopil, with 12 children among them.
- A large fire broke out in Lviv as a result of the Russian strike on the morning of 19 November. An energy facility, a woodworking business and a warehouse building have been damaged in the city.
- Three people, including two children, have been injured as a result of Russia's combined strike on Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.
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