A Russian Kh-101 missile is believed to have struck a residential building in the city of Ternopil, the Ukrainian Air Force has said, citing early reports.

Source: Yurii Ihnat, Head of the Communications Department of the Ukrainian Air Force Command, on air at Kyiv24

Quote: "We'll have to see, it'll be determined on site (whether this was a direct hit or debris – ed.).

Early reports indicate that it was a Kh-101 missile that hit the building in Ternopil.

The attack on the west was a combined strike involving various aerial weapons. These were Kh-101 missiles, Kalibr missiles and one ballistic missile launched from the northern direction. There were no launches from strategic aircraft."

Background:

• On the morning of 19 November, Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles. Explosions were heard in Khmelnytskyi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Lviv and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.
• A multi-storey residential building had been destroyed in Ternopil as a result of the Russian attack.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later reported that nine people had been killed and dozens injured in Russia's large-scale combined strike on Ukraine on the night of 18-19 November and the morning of 19 November. Russia launched over 470 attack UAVs and 48 missiles of various types to strike Ukraine.
• Later, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported that ten people had been killed and thirty-seven injured in Ternopil, with 12 children among them.
• A large fire broke out in Lviv as a result of the Russian strike on the morning of 19 November. An energy facility, a woodworking business and a warehouse building have been damaged in the city.
• Three people, including two children, have been injured as a result of Russia's combined strike on Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast.

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