Eight Killed, Dozens Injured in Russian Missile Strike on Dnipro
A deadly Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has killed at least eight people and injured nearly 84 others, including ten children, in one of the deadliest attacks on civilian infrastructure in recent weeks, The Gaze reports.
The attack, which struck in the early hours of Tuesday, caused widespread devastation across the city.
According to Serhiy Lysak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, at least seven of the wounded are in critical condition, and the number of casualties may rise as emergency crews continue to sift through the rubble.
“Many lives were saved because people were in shelters at the time of impact,” Lysak said in a statement. “But the scale of destruction is still being assessed.”
The missile strike damaged at least 19 schools, 10 kindergartens, a vocational training center, a music school, and multiple healthcare facilities including hospitals and clinics.
A government social welfare office and three out-of-school education centers were also hit, underscoring the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure.
Elsewhere, in the city of Samara, regional authorities reported eleven people injured in a related strike, four of whom remain in serious condition.
Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) also confirmed that a passenger train en route from Odesa to Zaporizhzhia was damaged by the same wave of missile fire.
Passengers were swiftly evacuated to shelters as air raid sirens continued to blare across the region.
Authorities have deployed a replacement train from Dnipro to transport passengers to their final destination.
Ukraine’s military reported that the strike was carried out using ballistic missiles – a tactic increasingly used by Russia to target populated urban centers.
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