During day, enemy carries out three missile and 34 air strikes, six MLRS attacks – AFU General Staff

20:47, 17.10.2023 1 min read

During the day, the enemy launched three missile and 34 air strikes, carried out six attacks from multiple launch rocket systems on the positions of Ukrainian troops and populated areas, as a result of enemy attacks there was destruction and casualties among the civilian population, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said.

"At the beginning of the day, the Russian occupiers launched another missile and air strike on Ukraine, using a Kh-59 guided missile, S-300 anti-aircraft guided missiles and six attack UAVs of the Shahed-136/131 type. Air defense forces and means destroyed one guided missile: an X-59 aircraft missile and six suicide bombers," the General Staff said on Facebook on Tuesday evening.

Within 24 hours, the enemy carried out mortar and artillery attacks on more than 117 settlements in Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.