Russians killed at least 36, including six children, and injured 93 civilians in their attack on Ternopil city (updating)
Russian forces killed at least 36 people, including six children, and injured 94 others in an attack on the western city of Ternopil, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated.
“In Ternopil… two nine-storey residential buildings have been damaged. One caught fire, while the other suffered destruction from the second to the eighth floor. As of 10:00, 10 people were killed and 37 were injured, including 12 children. Emergency workers are continuing to evacuate people from blocked apartments. Some people are still trapped under the rubble,” Klymenko wrote.
The Office of the Prosecutor General elaborated that in Ternopil, missiles and UAVs struck two residential buildings on Stusa Street and 15 Kvitnya Street. An industrial facility was also damaged.
Photo from the Facebook page of Roman Demush, Deputy Head of the Patriarchal Commission for Youth Affairs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic ChurchRussia fired more than 470 drones and 47 missiles at Ukraine overnight in a “brazen attack”, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said.
At 1:19 p.m., the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the death toll had risen to 20. Two children are among the dead.
As of 3 p.m., the Ministry stated that there were 25 fatalities, including 3 children. In total, 73 people, including 15 children, were wounded.
As of 8:30 p.m., the National Police of Ukraine reported about 26 fatalities, including three children. Ninety-three people were wounded, including 18 children. All children are hospitalized.
As of noon on November 21, the number of people killed in the Russian strike on Ternopil has risen to 31 after rescue workers retrieved the bodies of a woman and two children from the rubble, according to the National Police of Ukraine.
Suspilne, the public broadcaster, quoted Serhii Ziubanenko, Head of the National Police in Ternopil Oblast, as saying that the people whose bodies were found were a mother and her five-year-old and an eighteen-month-old child. The police said the father identified them.
The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that this Russian strike on Ternopil killed 7-year-old Ameliya, who held Polish citizenship.
Search and rescue operations are ongoing.
The Air Force, based on preliminary data, believes a Russian Kh-101 missile hit a house in Ternopil.
“Experts on site will determine whether it was a direct hit or debris,” Yurii Ihnat, Head of the Communications Department of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), told Kyiv24 Channel. “Preliminarily, a Kh-101 missile hit the house [in Ternopil].”
“The strike toward the West was a combined one involving various air assault weapons,” he added. “These included Kh-101 missiles, Kalibr missiles, and one ballistic missile launched from the northern direction. Thus, there were no launches from strategic aviation.”
Three districts of Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv, were also hit by a massive drone attack, which injured more than 30 people, including children. Photos posted online showed buildings and cars engulfed in flames.
The National Police of Ukraine reported that on November 19, Russians injured more than 150 others across the Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kherson regions.
Power cuts are affecting several regions across the country, according to Ukrainian authorities.
Energy facilities, transport, and civil infrastructure in the Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Cherkasy, and Donetsk regions of Ukraine were damaged.
The energy sector in the Ivano-Frankivsk region was also attacked, and two of the three injured were children.
Critical infrastructure and energy were hit in the Lviv region, Zelensky said, while the head of the region said an energy facility had been struck.
Zelensky, who is in Türkiye for talks with his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, called for aid from Ukraine’s allies, writing: “Every brazen attack against ordinary life shows that the pressure on Russia is insufficient. Effective sanctions and assistance to Ukraine can change this.”
Ukraine’s president had said he wanted to “intensify” peace negotiations ahead of the meeting in Ankara, but the Kremlin stated that no Russian representative would attend.
Meanwhile, Axios, citing American and Russian officials, reported that Donald Trump’s administration is working secretly with Russia on a new plan to end the war in Ukraine.
The 28-point US plan emerged after Trump’s efforts to reach a deal in Gaza. The publication suggests that the U.S. did not include Ukraine in the development of this plan. A senior Russian official told Axios he is optimistic about the plan. However, it is not yet clear how Ukraine and its European partners will respond.
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Axios, citing sources, wrote that the 28 points are divided into four broad categories: peace in Ukraine, security guarantees, security in Europe, and future US relations with Russia and Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Witkoff was due to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on November 19 in Türkiye, but he postponed his trip, according to Ukrainian and American officials, who told Axios.
Witkoff discussed the plan with Rustem Umierov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, during a meeting earlier this week in Miami, a Ukrainian official confirmed to Axios.
“We know the Americans are working on something,” the Ukrainian official said.
Dmitriev told Axios that the main idea was to base the proposal on the principles that Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed upon in Alaska in August, and to prepare a proposal addressing Russia’s war against Ukraine, as well as “how to restore US-Russia ties [and] address Russia’s security concerns.”
Axios also reported that an American official confirmed the White House had begun informing European officials about the new plan, although the administration has not briefed Ukraine.
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