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>>> Overnight August 18–19, Russia launched 280 aerial targets against Ukraine: 270 Shahed drones, 5 Iskander-M ballistic missiles, and 5 Kh-101 cruise missiles. Ukrainian defenses shot down or suppressed 236, including 230 drones, but strikes hit 19 locations.
>>> Kremenchuk suffered one of the most massive attacks of the war, with drones, ballistic, and cruise missiles hitting administrative energy buildings and gas storage sites. Fires spread thick smoke across the city.
>>> Russian Shahed drones struck Odesa, setting ablaze a Nova Poshta terminal and a Socar gas station, releasing toxic smoke over residential districts.
>>> In Kharkiv, five Russian drone strikes on a residential building killed seven civilians, including a child, and injured 18 others.
>>> A Russian missile hit a historic Jewish cemetery in Pervomaisk, Mykolaiv region, damaging graves. Chief Rabbi Moshe Reuven Asman condemned the strike as a cultural crime.
>>> A Russian drone attack on an ambulance in Kupiansk injured two medics aged 56 and 43, highlighting Moscow’s attacks on medical workers.