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Russia fires a missile and 180 drones at Ukraine overnight; woman killed in Zaporizhzhia

News card from EXE Index. Headline: Russia fires a missile and 180 drones at Ukraine overnight; woman killed in Zaporizhzhia. Map from Wikimedia Commons (NordNordWest, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, marker added) showing Zaporizhzhia as a red dot in southeastern Ukraine. Key facts: night of Oct 17-18 from 6 PM Kyiv time, still under way at 8 AM, Ukraine's Air Force says; 1 Iskander-M ballistic missile and 180 drones, 152 drones downed or jammed; in Zaporizhzhia a 27-year-old woman was killed and a 58-year-old woman and a 6-year-old girl were injured; hits at 20 locations, and in Zaporizhzhia 2 apartment blocks, 18 cars and a school building were damaged. Sources: Ukraine Air Force via Ukrainska Pravda, UNN, Ukrinform, hromadske, DW. exeindex.com/military. Record dispatch:2026-10-18-ua-zaporizhzhia. @exeindex.
News cardMap: Zaporizhzhia (red dot) in southeastern Ukraine. Map: Wikimedia Commons, NordNordWest · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · marker added

Oct 18: Russia fired an Iskander-M missile and 180 drones at Ukraine overnight, the Air Force says; 152 drones downed or jammed, hits at 20 sites. In Zaporizhzhia a woman, 27, was killed and 2 hurt, incl. a girl of 6,…

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Romanian F-16s shoot down two jet-powered drones over the Black Sea

File, Oct 2021: a Romanian Air Force F-16 lands at Borcea Air Base · not from Oct 17
File photoPhoto: U.S. Air Force, Capt. Andrew Layton · public domain via Wikimedia Commons

Oct 17: Two Romanian F-16s shot down two jet-powered Geran-family drones over Romania's Black Sea waters near Sulina, the defense ministry says. Its acting minister says they were likely Russian Geran-4s.

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