A Russian drone attack on the Poltava region on Sunday killed one person and injured at least four others. This was reported by the head of the Poltava regional military administration, Vitalii Diakivnych, on his Telegram channel, according to the news agency Ukrinform.
An enemy drone hit an area with private houses, Diakivnych wrote. Initially he reported one dead and two injured: “According to the current situation, one person has been confirmed dead. My condolences go to the family and relatives. Two other people were injured.” Later he updated the figures: “The number of injured has risen to four. They are all receiving the necessary medical assistance.” In addition, the crash of a drone was recorded in the Tereshky community, and five private houses were damaged, Diakivnych continued.
According to the outlet fakti.bg, citing Ukrainian authorities, four houses were damaged in the Poltava region, and five further private houses were hit in the Tereshkivskyi community. No casualties were reported there. According to Ukrinform, the clean-up work is still ongoing.
fakti.bg also reports further Russian attacks on the night of 18 October: in the city of Sumy, a man died of severe injuries he had suffered in a drone attack. The governor of the Sumy region, Oleh Hryhorov, said the man died on the way to hospital and would have celebrated his 31st birthday the next day. Already the day before, a 42-year-old had been killed in Sumy in an attack with glide bombs on a residential area. In Zaporizhzhia, a residential building was hit on the night of 18 October, a 27-year-old woman was killed and another woman was injured, according to the acting head of the Zaporizhzhia regional administration, Mykhailo Semikin.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported, according to fakti.bg, that Russia had fired 157 attack drones and six S-8000 munitions between 7:30 and 19:30 on 17 October. 140 drones and all six S-8000 were shot down or suppressed. Around 22:00, about 30 attack drones were still recorded in Ukrainian airspace.
