The office of the Ternopil-based newspaper 20 Khvylyn was damaged in Russia’s mass drone attack on 1 May, editor Natalia Burlaku reported in a Facebook post and in a comment to the regional Institute of Mass Information representative Iryna Nebesna.
Burlaku said that fragments of a shot-down Shahed drone had hit the office building and damaged the windows.
“At the moment of the strike, all staff were in a bomb shelter, so there were no casualties. Some team members were working away from the office,” Burlaku added.
In a comment to the IMI representative, she said that the damage was not severe and they would shoulder the repairs on their own.
Ternopil OVA chair Taras Pastukh reported that 36 air targets were spotted over the city during the strike. 27 were shot down by air defense and nine more hit civilian infrastructure objects. According to Ternopil oblast police, 12 people were harmed in the strike as of 17:30 on 1 May.