Explosions in Kremenchuk thundered this morning during a massive enemy strike on the territory of Ukraine.
This was reported by the mayor of Kremenchuk Vitaliy Maletsky.
Explosions in Kremenchuk on November 17: what is known
According to Vitaliy Maletsky, as a result of falling debris from Russian targets, there is damage to residential infrastructure in Kremenchuk, in particular, windows were broken in six multi-story buildings. Five cars also caught fire. Rescuers have already extinguished the fire.
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A woman who was walking her dog at the time was injured by falling debris. A woman in the hospital.
Currently, city services are assessing the damage and will begin restoration work later. Vitaly Maletsky called on citizens to save electricity to reduce the load on the country's energy system.
Missile strike on Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky reported that at night and in the morning, the Russians launched about 120 missiles and 90 drones at Ukraine. Our air defense forces destroyed more than 140 air targets. The enemy was targeting energy infrastructure.
According to the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council Andrey Kovalenko, the Russians have accumulated missiles for several massive strikes on Ukraine.
— Ukraine knows about the enemy's strategy and is ready. Now the enemy is informationally scaling the results of this attack. Thanks to the air defense, the estimates of the enemy's war correspondents do not correspond to reality, – Andrey Kovalenko noted.
The full-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for 998 days. The situation in the cities can be monitored on the interactive map of military actions in Ukraine and on the map of air raids in Ukraine.
