Death toll from Russian ballistic strike on Pryluky in Chernihiv Oblast rises to four

VALENTYNA ROMANENKO — 20 May, 11:41
Death toll from Russian ballistic strike on Pryluky in Chernihiv Oblast rises to four
Photo: National Police of Ukraine

Four people were killed and 30 injured as a result of a Russian ballistic missile strike on the town of Pryluky in Chernihiv Oblast.

Source: Viacheslav Chaus, Head of Chernihiv Oblast Military Administration

Quote: "Four people were killed in yesterday's missile strike on Pryluky – two men, a woman and a 15-year-old boy. Thirty people were injured. Businesses, shopping centres, shops, pharmacies, educational institutions, flats and houses were damaged."

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Details: According to Chaus, Russian Geran drones also struck oil and gas infrastructure in the Pryluky and Nizhyn districts.

On the morning of 20 May, a Russian drone hit a recreation complex in the Baturyn hromada. Damage was reported, while firefighters extinguished a blaze at the impact site. A passenger car was destroyed, and one person was injured and treated on site. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Fires also broke out in border villages of the Chernihiv district due to UAV strikes. In the city of Chernihiv itself, two passenger cars were damaged.

In the Koriukivka district, an FPV drone struck the territory of a forest in the Snovsk hromada, hitting a communications facility.

In the Novhorod-Siverskyi district, a former sawmill in a village of the Semenivka hromada was damaged in a strike by a Lancet drone.

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