The Ukrainian Air Force reported that the Russian military launched 17 drones at night in five Ukrainian regions — Kharkiv, Kyiv, Sumy, Poltava and Chernihiv. The authorities of the Kherson region also reported the morning attack.
There are known casualties and deaths in Kharkiv and the Kharkiv region. According to the Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsia, the contact network and rolling stock were damaged at the exit from Kharkiv, and four of their employees were «minorly» injured. The police write about two deaths as a result of the missile attack on the city of Barvinkove near Izyum.
The Ukrainian police also reported an attack by a drone on an ambulance in Kherson. Medics arrived to see a 59-year-old man wounded in a drone explosion in the Dniprovskyi district, and soon a new drone dropped explosives on them. The paramedic and driver have explosive and craniocerebral injuries. As Ukrainska Pravda clarifies, this happened near the regional clinical hospital.
Russians attacked Kherson hospital, destroyed evacuation vehicle https://t.co/nl3ScRZEmw pic.twitter.com/sQbWqhGuOM
— Українська правда ✌️ (@ukrpravda_news) July 20, 2024
The village of Belozerka on the right bank of the Dnieper near Kherson was shelled in the morning from multiple launch rocket systems. According to the Ukrainian National Police, two elderly residents of the village were killed and 12 more people were injured.
The state-owned company Ukrenergo reports damage to infrastructure and power outages in the Sumy, Poltava and Chernihiv regions. Drone debris was recorded falling in the Solomyansky district of Kyiv.