On the morning of March 18, powerful explosions took place in Lvov, Nikolaev and the surrounding area.
According to preliminary data, 6 cruise missiles were fired at Lviv, presumably from the Black Sea. The 2 missiles were shot down by air defense systems. The rest of the missiles hit the area of the aircraft repair plant, one person was injured. This information was reported by the head of the Lviv OVA Maxim Kozitsky.
Morning in the Podolsky district of Kyiv on March 18.
Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko showed the consequences of the shelling of a residential area in the Podolsky district of Kyiv. One person died, 19 were injured, including four children. 6 residential buildings, a kindergarten and a school are unusable – said the mayor of Kyiv.
Video filming in the city of Izyum and surroundings. Fighting continues in the city.
Mariupol.
Video from Mariupol on March 18, an area near the regional hospital.
Russian occupiers shell the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
Avdiivka, March 18.
Kharkiv – a result of shelling.
According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine: In Kharkiv, as a result of shelling, the building of a higher educational institution and residential buildings were destroyed and damaged. The number of dead and wounded is being established.
On the morning of March 17, Russia launched a missile attack on Kramatorsk.
The rockets hit a residential building and an office building. At the time of publication, 2 dead and 6 injured are known.
A fire in the warehouses of paint and varnish products in Sumy, after Russian shelling.
Lugansk region.
More than 20 residential buildings and infrastructure destroyed by Russian shelling in Severodonetsk and Rubizhne overnight. Two people died and four were injured. Some houses lack gas and water due to shelling. This was announced by the head of the Lugansk OVA Serhiy Gaidai.
Destruction in the Zhytomyr region after artillery shelling.
The villages of Yablonovka and Zalesye, Korostensky district. They destroyed 4 private houses and damaged 3 buildings.
Events in the war in Ukraine March 18, 2022.
For 22 days of armed aggression of the Russian Federation as of the morning of March 18, 109 children were killed and more than 130 were injured.
On March 18, at 5 o'clock in the morning, a sea-based cruise missile was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile unit of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the Odessa region. 2 missiles hit residential areas.
In the Vinnytsia region in the Tulchinsky district, 3 rockets of the aggressor were neutralized, 2 more rockets fell into the field.
Attempts to evacuate civilians from Mariupol and other cities of Ukraine continue.
Russian invaders kidnapped Dmitry Vasiliev, secretary of the council of the united territorial community of Nova Kakhovka. He is kept in the city police building, as reported by his wife.
The publication used materials from websites, channels (UNIAN, Suspilne Odessa, Ukraine Operativno, Security Service of Ukraine, Territorial Defense of Odessa, Kherson OVA, Current Time, NEXTA), from private messages on social networks.