{"id":1453586,"date":"2026-10-16T11:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/western-ukraine-under-russian-attack-damaged-homes-businesses-and-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T11:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T08:18:11","slug":"western-ukraine-under-russian-attack-damaged-homes-businesses-and-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/western-ukraine-under-russian-attack-damaged-homes-businesses-and-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Ukraine under Russian attack: damaged homes, businesses and infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russian occupation forces launched a massive attack on western regions of Ukraine with drones on the night of October 16. Power supply was cut off in Lutsk and Kovel, civilian infrastructure was damaged in Rivne and seven people were injured, and a foreign manufacturing enterprise was destroyed in Chortkiv, Ternopil region.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The consequences of the strikes were reported by the heads of regional military administrations and representatives of local authorities.<\/p>\n

The air alert in the western regions continued throughout the night, and attacks continued in the morning. The Ukrainian Air Force warned of the threat of strikes by jet drones.<\/p>\n

In Volyn, Lutsk and Kovel, as well as surrounding villages, were left without electricity due to shelling. In Kovel, water supply was also lost due to the power outage at the pumping station.<\/p>\n

Secretary of the Lutsk City Council Andriy Razumovsky reported that the attack on the city has been going on for over a day. Public utilities are operating on backup power sources.<\/p>\n

In Rivne, civilian infrastructure, including residential buildings, was damaged as a result of a night strike. The head of the Rivne Regional Emergency Management Office, Oleksandr Koval, called the night difficult for the region and its regional center. According to updated data, seven people were injured in Rivne. As of the time of the report, they did not require hospitalization. <\/p>\n

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In Ternopil region, Russian drones attacked Chortkiv twice. One of the strikes hit a manufacturing plant, causing a fire of 15 square meters. Rescuers extinguished the fire.<\/p>\n

The head of the Ternopil OVA, Taras Pastukh, confirmed the damage to the production facilities. At the same time, the mayor of Chortkiv, Volodymyr Shmatko, reported the destruction of a foreign enterprise that had been operating for over ten years.<\/p>\n

Explosions were also heard at night in Ivano-Frankivsk region, in particular in the regional center, as well as in Khmelnytskyi and Vinnytsia regions.<\/p>\n

In Khmelnytskyi region, the effects of the attack were recorded in the Kamianets-Podilskyi district. According to the head of the OVA, Serhiy Tyurin, ten residential buildings were damaged: windows were broken, ceilings, doors and fences were damaged. In one of the houses, a summer kitchen caught fire, but rescuers extinguished the fire. There were no injuries.<\/p>\n

Due to Russian strikes on western regions of Ukraine, Poland has raised its aviation. The Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces reported the involvement of the necessary forces and means. Ground-based air defense and radar reconnaissance systems have been put on alert.<\/p>\n

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Russian occupation forces launched a massive attack on western regions of Ukraine with drones on the night of October 16. Power supply was cut off in Lutsk and Kovel, civilian infrastructure was damaged in Rivne and seven people were injured, and a foreign manufacturing enterprise was destroyed in Chortkiv, Ternopil region. The consequences of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":1453578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1453586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1453586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1453586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1453586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}