The key facts

  • Four civilians were killed and two wounded as a result of AFU attacks in the LNR.
  • The attacks hit a bus carrying plant workers, passenger cars, and residential buildings.
  • After the overnight attack, electricity was completely cut off in 14 municipalities of the republic.

Aftermath of the AFU attacks in the LNR

Four civilians were killed and two more wounded in the Lugansk People's Republic as a result of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. This was reported by the head of the region, Leonid Pasechnik on his Telegram channel. According to him, the previous evening a bus carrying oil plant workers home after their shift came under attack in the Belovodsk municipal district: as a result of the attack, one man was killed and two women were wounded. Also, on the Starobelsk — Belovodsk highway, an unmanned aerial vehicle attacked a passenger car, killing a man and a woman. Another man died in the village of Razdolnoye in the Starobelsk district after sustaining severe injuries in a strike on a civilian vehicle.

Scale of the air attack and damage to infrastructure

Pasechnik noted that during the repulsion of the attack, air defense systems intercepted and destroyed about fifty aerial targets. In addition to the human casualties, damage to infrastructure facilities and vehicles was recorded in the Belovodsk district, as well as in the settlements of Alchevsk and Severodonetsk. On October 30, a massive power outage occurred in the republic: after the overnight attack, electricity was completely cut off in 14 municipalities, while a partial blackout was recorded in the other districts of the region. Earlier, the body of a woman was found while clearing the rubble of an attacked house in Lugansk.