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On Thursday, September 18, Russian forces struck railway infrastructure in Ukraine's Poltava region, disrupting power supply at several points and delaying trains. This was reported by the Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsia and Volodymyr Kohut, head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration.
As a result of the overnight shelling, backup diesel locomotives were used, but several passenger trains were delayed for up to three hours. Delays affected trains No. 102 Kherson-Kramatorsk, No. 63/111 Kharkiv-Lviv, No. 64/112 Lviv-Kharkiv, and No. 791 Kremenchuk-Kyiv. According to preliminary reports, one person was killed and four others were injured in a Russian drone attack on a gas station in Poltava Oblast, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported.
Russian forces also struck the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions. In the Kyiv region, the Bucha and Boryspil communities were attacked: in the city of Bucha, a fire broke out in a 100-square-meter private home, damaging a neighboring house and a car. There were no casualties. In the Boryspil district, a fire broke out at an industrial facility, which was quickly extinguished.
A 45-year-old State Emergency Service rescuer was killed and two others were injured in a Russian airstrike in the city of Nizhyn in the Chernihiv region. The attack was carried out by Shahed and Geran drones on September 17, Rescuer's Day, according to the local OVA.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, approximately 75 Russian attack drones of various types were deployed overnight, launched from the Kursk, Oryol, and Rostov regions, and the Krasnodar Krai. Ukrainian air defense units shot down or suppressed 48 drones, but 26 attack drones reached six locations in the northern, eastern, and central regions of the country.
