On the morning of Thursday, February 18, an alarm began spreading across Ukraine amid missile threats. In particular, there is a risk of cruise missile attacks, and fast-moving targets have already been detected in the country's airspace. This information was reported via Telegram by the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and on the channel of the head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional State Administration, Ivan Fedorov.
It is worth noting that during the night, monitoring channels reported the takeoff of four Russian strategic bombers, Tu-95MS, from the Olenya airfield. While there will be no official confirmations, starting from 06:13, military forces detected fast-moving targets in the Kharkiv region. Fedorov warned about the cruise missiles.
ATTENTION! There is a threat of cruise missiles in the Zaporizhzhia region and other areas of Ukraine where an air alert has been declared.
At 06:21, it became known that a group of missiles was recorded in the Kharkiv region. They are moving in a southeastern direction.
At 06:39, air alerts began to be lifted in the western regions, specifically in Chernivtsi, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Volyn, Khmelnytskyi, Zakarpattia, Lviv, and Rivne regions.