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09:06 24 Feb 2022

Airports and military bases are on fire in Western Ukraine, State Emergency Service says

Airports and military bases are on fire in western Ukraine, rescuers say.

This was reported by the SES, sources of the UP in the SBU, and Volyn Post.

UP sources say that the Russians are bombing the Frankivsk airport with missiles. It is on fire. Airports in Kosiv and Kolomia have also been shelled.

Their goal, the interlocutors explain, is to sow panic among Ukrainians.

According to rescuers, in the Khmelnytsky region as a result of artillery shelling, the warehouse of the military base in Starokostiantyniv caught fire.

In the Dnipropetrovsk region in Krasnopillia and Marhanka, there is a fire in military depots.

In the Vinnytsia region in Tulchyn and Bokhan, there are fires on military units.

A TV tower was blown up in Lutsk, local media reported that as of 7:18 a.m., six explosions had already taken place. Interlocutors of the UP say that the explosions "almost shattered the windows."

Vinnytsia region: the town of Tulchyn and the village of Bokhan – fire in military bases.

A military base near Brovary is on fire in the Kyiv region.

The Russians captured the villages of Horodyshche and Milove in the Luhansk region.

UPD. The SES later released additional information.

In particular, the "Air Alarm" signal was announced in Poltava.

In Khmelnytskyi, they hit the runway of a military airfield.

As a result of the shelling, 7 private houses in Mariupol caught fire, and a shell hit the Kramatorsk airport.

In Lutsk, the fire department is damaged, without victims.

In Nizhyn, 6 people are being pulled out from under the rubble.

The Rada channel reported that the airfield in Ozerne (Zhytomyr Region) was shelled.

UPD 2. According to the police, in Kryvyi Rih three strikes on the depots of the 17th tank brigade, combat duty position 4608 Krasnopillia, a strike from a UAV, bombed the bridge over the river Inhulets.

In Kalinovka, Vinnytsia region, a military base is burning, where ammunition depots are located.

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