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On the night of January 18, the Russian military launched new wave of strikes on the Ukrainian military facilities, including in the Western regions. Russian strikes were reported at the notorious Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnitsky region. Another missile attack destroyed military targets in the Kharkiv region, while large explosions thundered in the Kherson, Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
According to the Ukrainian military officials, Russia launched 33 strike UAVs on Ukrainian territory. Ukrainian air defense forces allegedly intercepted 22 of them. The Ukrainian military also confirmed missile strikes in the Kharkiv region, where the Russian military reportedly used S-300 missiles upgraded to hit ground targets. The officials confirmed that at least one building was hit in Chuguev in the Kharkiv region.
Russian strikes in Chuguev were also confirmed by unofficial sources. The targets were reportedly the points of deployment of the Ukrainian military personnel and their military equipment.
Another target of the night attack was the military airfield in Starokonstantinov in the Khmelnitsky region. This was at least the 5th attack on the facility since the beginning of the year. The airfield iis one of the most targeted military facilities in Ukraine because it was built in the Soviet times in order to serve as a large military base. That’s why there are large fortification, including underground facilities, and all necessary infrastructure to continue military operations despite the enemy bombings. This is one of the airfields where the NATO aircraft could be deployed, if they are ever supplied to Ukraine. The Ukrainian military is working hard to restore the damaged facilities there, including the runway, between the constant Russian strikes.
Russian drones reportedly attacked Ukrainian military facilities in the village of Snigirevka, which is an important logistic hub of Ukrainian forces in the Kherson region.
More strikes were reported in the area of Pavlograd in the Dnepropetrovsk region. This city is located on the Dnepropetrovsk-Donetsk highway. There is also a strategically important railway. That’s why the city is used by the Ukrainian troops to transfer personnel and military equipment to the frontlines in the DPR.
At night, Russian drones trikes were reported in the Sumy regions, where more explosions thundered in the area of the attack. This could be a secondary detonation of the destroyed military equipment.
On the morning of January 18, air alert sounded almost simultaneously in all regions of Ukraine. This means that Russian strategic bombers took off in the rear airfields, likely to launch new wave of strikes on the Ukrainian military infrastructure.
