During the night, Russians shelled Nikolaev and settlements of three communities in the region

This was reported by Vitaliy Kim, head of the Mykolaiv OVA.

At night, 19 October, at 00:55, the city of Nikolaev was hit by a missile, resulting in a fire of a warehouse building, which is not in operation, on the territory of one of the enterprises, the blast wave damaged apartment buildings. No casualties," the report said.

In the evening, on 18 October, at 20:30, the Russians launched a missile strike on the settlement of the Stepovska community and hit a catering establishment. Two people were killed under the rubble and another person was injured.

The strike also damaged residential houses, an agricultural enterprise and other civilian infrastructure.

At around 02:40 in the same locality, the roof of an unused one-storey warehouse building caught fire as a result of falling debris from a Shahed-136/131 strike UAV. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

From yesterday evening until this morning, the Russians attacked the Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhya regions with missiles of various types and drones. These were:

• 5 Iskander M ballistic missiles;
• s-300 anti-aircraft guided missile;
• x-59 guided aircraft missile;
• a cruise missile (type to be specified);
• 9 Shahed attack drones.

Air defence forces destroyed one Kh-59 guided missile and three Shahed drones.