Russian attack on Ukraine kills 25, including three children, in Ternopil
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Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:39:00 +0200

Ukraine's Air Force reported the information.TernopilAccording to the State Emergency Service (DSNS), as of 3:09 p.m., 25 fatalities were reported as a result of the attack, including 3 children. The number of injured has risen to 73 people, including 15 children."Emergency rescue operations are ongoing. More than 160 rescuers are involved, including high-altitude workers, canine units, the Delta special unit, and about 45 units of DSNS equipment, including robotic systems. Sappers have inspected the territory," the statement said.According to the latest information, 20 people were killed in the city due to a missile and drone strike, and 66 were injured, including 16 children. Emergency workers rescued 45 people.As of 12:17 p.m., the National Police reported that 16 people were killed in the city due to the missile and drone strike, and 64 were injured, including 14 children."Around 7:00 a.m., the Russians attacked the city of Ternopil and the region with attack drones and missiles. Two residential high-rise buildings were hit, resulting in fires and destruction," law enforcement officials reported. Due to the enemy strikes, industrial and critical infrastructure facilities were also damaged. The extent of the destruction is being clarified.At 12:00 p.m., the Ternopil Regional Prosecutor's Office reported 12 deaths from the missile and drone strike. There are 49 injured, including 12 children. It is specified that Russia attacked 2 residential buildings and an industrial facility.As of 10:00 a.m., the State Emergency Service reported 10 deaths as a result of the Russian strikes, with 37 people injured, 12 of whom are children.President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that 9 people were killed in the city as a result of the Russian strikes, with dozens injured.Suspilne reported explosions in the city that began around 6:39 a.m. It later became known that a multi-story building in Ternopil was destroyed as a result of the enemy attack.Mayor Serhii Nadal stated that Russia struck the city with missiles and Shahed drones."Buildings and residential houses are damaged. There are casualties. Relevant services are working on-site. I will provide more detailed information later," he added."The enemy is hitting residential buildings, among other targets, because in Ternopil today, two missiles actually hit two different residential buildings," said the head of the Ternopil Regional Military Administration, Viacheslav Nehoda, on the Espreso TV channel.According to him, as of 6:12 p.m., there are 12 dead, including three children. Rescue operations are still ongoing, and the clearing of rubble continues at one of the buildings, which is completely destroyed and beyond repair. Rescuers have already reached the 5th-6th floors.There is also good news: a young man was pulled from under the rubble. He was hospitalized and is alive."This is the only positive thing so far, as of this moment," noted Viacheslav Nehoda.LvivEspreso correspondents reported explosions in Lviv. Explosions were also heard in Burshtyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, as reported by Suspilne."Energy, transport, and civil infrastructure have been damaged. They attacked our energy sector in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. Three people were injured, two of them children. In the Lviv region, they struck critical infrastructure and energy facilities. A person was wounded in the Donetsk region. The Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, and Dnipro regions were also under attack," informed Zelenskyy.In the Lviv region, rescuers are extinguishing fires in warehouse premises at several locations with a total area of over 10,000 square meters. All are civilian objects. Meanwhile, in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, three people were injured, including two children.Kharkiv regionAs of the morning of November 19, Oleh Syniehubov reported 46 people injured as a result of the shelling of Kharkiv, including girls aged 9 and 13."The enemy attacked the Slobidskyi and Osnovianskyi districts of Kharkiv with 19 Geran-2 type UAVs. The enemy actively used various types of weaponry in the Kharkiv region: 1 guided bomb; 24 Geran-2 type UAVs; 2 FPV drones; 25 UAVs (type being established)," he added.According to the head of the Regional Military Administration, a total of 16 apartment buildings, 31 cars, a garage cooperative, an emergency medical substation, a supermarket, 2 trolleybuses, a non-residential building, an administrative building, and a school were damaged in Kharkiv.As reported by Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov: "As of 12:11 a.m., several explosions were heard in the city, preliminarily in the Slobidskyi district. Preliminarily, one of the hits was on a high-rise building in the Slobidskyi district. There is a fire at the scene."There is also preliminary information about a hit near one of the city's medical facilities, with reports of an injured doctor and damage to the building and cars. This information is being clarified.As of 12:31 a.m., there are known casualties as a result of the strike on the high-rise building. The number is being clarified.At 12:32 a.m., the head of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration, Oleh Syniehubov, reported:a hit on a 9-story building with a subsequent fire;garages caught fire."DSNS units and emergency medical teams are heading to the sites of the enemy strikes," he added.At 12:37 a.m., Ihor Terekhov reported that 22 people were evacuated from the affected entrance of the high-rise building.As of 12:43 a.m., five injured people are known.According to updated information as of 12:44 a.m., the enemy struck two districts of the city - Slobidskyi and Osnovianskyi.As of 1:08 a.m., 12 casualties are known.Attack on DTEK stationDuring the Russian drone attack, five energy workers were injured: the enemy struck the territory of a DTEK facility. It is known that one employee is in serious condition, while the other four sustained concussions and shrapnel wounds.At 12:11 p.m., it was reported that the occupiers attacked a DTEK thermal power plant, where equipment was damaged."This is the fifth attack on the company's TPP in the last two months. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, DTEK's thermal power plants have been attacked more than 210 times," the group emphasized.FM Sybiha calls for increased pressure on RussiaAfter another Russian attack, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, stressed the need to increase pressure on Moscow, including the need for sanctions."Russia’s brutal and constant terror demonstrates that any realistic peace plan must start with pressure on Moscow to force it to engage in meaningful diplomacy and end the war.
The war that Russia should have never started, the war it cannot win, and the war it refuses to end. Sanctions, isolation, and accountability can force Moscow to finally do so," he wrote on X.These are two ordinary residential buildings in Ternopil. Not military targets, but simply someone’s homes. This morning Russia struck them, killing at least 10 people and injuring four dozen more, including 12 children.Russian attacks across the country, from Kharkiv to… pic.twitter.com/U49GZd2kQc— Andrii Sybiha ???????? (@andrii_sybiha) November 19, 2025






