Two people were killed and eight injured in Ukraine's attacks on the LPR.

Two people were killed and eight others were injured during the day as a result of attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) on the Luhansk People's Republic (LNR). This was announced on October 20 by the head of the republic Leonid Pasechnik.

"It has been a difficult day for our republic: two people were killed, eight more were injured," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to him, drones attacked Gazelle and passenger cars in the Novoaydar municipal district. As a result, one man was killed and three were injured. Another man was killed when a UAV hit a section of the Novoaydar—Starobilsk highway, and another person was injured. In the Starobilsk municipal district, a drone attacked a civilian car, and a freight forwarder was injured.

In Severodonetsk, a strike on a Gazelle led to the injury of a man. In the Kremen Municipal district, a minibus was hit, and a woman was injured. Another woman was injured in the attack while riding a bicycle.

The head of the region expresses his deep condolences to the families and friends of the victims and wishes the injured a speedy recovery.

Pasechnik also reported attacks on transport, residential buildings and objects of civil and communal infrastructure in Krasny Luch, Lisichansk, Svatovsky, Anthracitovsky, Perevalsky, Troitsk, Starobilsk and Stanichno-Lugansk municipal districts. According to him, the necessary services are dealing with the consequences, and the investigators are recording what happened.

About 40 aerial targets were destroyed by air defense systems and mobile fire groups over the territory of the republic during the day, Pasechnik added.

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