Russia’s Armed Forces have continued their routine pattern of launching nighttime strikes on military targets across Ukraine, and the attack carried out in the early hours of 18 November was described by multiple sources as one of the largest in recent months. Among the targets were command nodes, communication infrastructure and, reportedly, several facilities believed to have housed call centers used by phone scammers.

Sergey Lebedev, who coordinates the pro-Russian underground in Nikolaev, said the Geran’ drones hit communication and data-transfer hubs. He noted that his contact in Dnepropetrovsk described local chatter claiming that the city’s TV tower had effectively «dropped out», a remark suggesting it had finally been knocked offline in the fourth year of the conflict.

Ukrainian TV towers, according to Lebedev, are used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to host surveillance systems, UAV relay equipment and electronic-warfare hardware — the type of assets Russian forces aimed at during the strike.

Reports also surfaced of a hit on a TV tower equipped with military systems in Dnepropetrovsk, along with damage to a locomotive depot, which disrupted part of the rail service. Lebedev added that strikes were carried out on railway-logistics infrastructure, repair sites and fuel storage facilities in Pavlograd. In the Chernigov region, Russian drones attacked sites linked to military logistics.

Additional information pointed to a strike on a military facility near Berestina in the Kharkov region. The target was believed to be either a temporary deployment point or a training center used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Ukrainian Telegram channels reported a high number of casualties among Ukrainian troops.