A total of 19 people were killed and nine were injured in Monday's shelling of the TV tower in the Rivne region in western Ukraine, informed the head of the region's authorities Vitaly Koval.

The Russians shot at the television tower in Antopol near the city of Rivne on Monday morning. Two rockets hit the tower and the adjacent administration room.

This is another shelling of a TV tower during Russia's military invasion of Ukraine. On March 1, the Russian army attacked the TV tower in Kyiv with rockets. Five random passers-by were killed, Ukrainian TV channels stopped broadcasting as a result of the attack. The tower itself, about 380 meters high, did not overturn.