Russian strikes leave two killed, five wounded in Nikopol district
On Sunday morning, Russian troops attacked the Nikopol district in the Dnipropetrovsk region several times. They used artillery and deployed kamikaze drones.
17 November 2024
On Sunday morning, Russian troops attacked the Nikopol district in the Dnipropetrovsk region several times. They used artillery and deployed kamikaze drones.
A total of 133 combat engagements have been recorded over the past day as the invaders were most active in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove axes.
Overnight Sunday, November 17, several unmanned aerial vehicles attacked the Izhevsk-based Kupol electromechanical plant.
Russia targeted energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s Volyn region early Sunday.
During Russia’s latest massive combined attack, the invaders employed 120 missiles and 90 killer drones. Air defense forces destroyed more than 140 air targets.
In Ukraine’s Vinnytsia region, as a result of the Russian attack early Sunday, critical infrastructure facilities were hit.
During Russia’s massive missile and drone attack in the early hours of Sunday, Ukraine’s Defense Forces downed several Kh-101/55 missiles, Kinzhals, Iskander-Ms (KN-23s), likely a hypersonic missile of the Zirkon type, and up to a dozen attack drones targeting Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.
The city of Rivne was targeted in a Russian missile attack in the early hours of Sunday, November 17.
In Lviv region, a fire broke out in garages and a car following the fall of missile debris.
The total combat losses of the Russian forces in Ukraine from February 24, 2022, to November 17, 2024, amount to approximately 720,880 personnel, with 1,640 of those lost in the previous 24 hours.
Russia is attacking power generation and transmission facilities across Ukraine.
Due to enemy shelling, preventive power outages are being implemented in Kyiv, Kyiv region, Donetsk region, and Dnipropetrovsk region.
On the morning of November 17, the Russian forces launched attacks on Zaporizhzhia.
A residential building in Kyiv’s Pechersk district caught fire following a Russian strike, resulting in the injury of a woman.
During a nighttime attack on Mykolaiv, the enemy struck a residential area, resulting in the death of a woman.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has released footage demonstrating how its special forces used FPV drones to eliminate Russian troops attempting to launch an assault.
Fighters of the Hart Border Guard Brigade used strike drones to destroy military equipment of Russian invaders and inflicted fire damage on the shelters of their personnel near Vovchansk.
Representatives from Iran were present during the first launches of Shahed kamikaze drones by Russia on Ukrainian cities because initially, almost none of the Russians could operate these weapons.
Ukrainian border guards used an FPV drone to destroy a Russian truck carrying ammunition in the area near the northern border.
16 November 2024
The Russians are using decoy drones designed to wear out Ukrainian air defenses, along with deadly thermobaric attack UAVs.
A 55-year-old civilian man was injured in a drone strike in the town of Beryslav, Kherson region.
In the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, as a result of the latest Russian shelling on November 16, a woman suffered injuries while a number of households, a transport company, power lines, and a gas main sustained damage.
On Saturday afternoon, the Russian army attacked a bus with a drone in the village of Komyshany, Kherson community, injuring two men.
In Russia’s Kursk region, the Russian army lost 17 pieces of equipment during an attempted assault.
The Estonian government has supported Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur's proposal to send another military aid package to Ukraine, including equipment and ammunition.
Ukraine’s National Guardsmen destroyed a Russian BUK-M1 anti-aircraft missile system, which may cost nearly $100 million.
Currently, the situation in the east of Ukraine remains difficult as Russian invasion forces continue their slow advance.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the Ukrainian Army today is one of the most powerful ones in the world and the most powerful in Europe.
As a result of a kamikaze drone attack on Kyiv region, windows and balconies in two apartments sustained damage while no casualties were reported.
Over the past day, there have been 170 combat engagements at the front, with the greatest number of battles occurring in the Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, and Kursk sectors.