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Russian strike on Dnipro injures 84-year-old woman

Russian forces hit private houses in Dnipro overnight into Monday. An 84-year-old woman was injured, and people may still be trapped under the rubble.

Russian strike on Dnipro injures 84-year-old woman
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Russian forces hit private houses in Dnipro overnight into Monday. An 84-year-old woman was injured, and people may still be trapped under the rubble.

An 84-year-old woman was injured in a Russian attack on the city of Dnipro overnight into Monday. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, wrote on social media, as reported by the news outlet Ukrainska Pravda, that private houses were damaged in the attack overnight into 19 October. According to initial information, people could be trapped there, Hanzha wrote. These details come from the first phase after the impact and have not yet been confirmed. Later he reported that the 84-year-old had been injured and taken to hospital.

According to Ukrainska Pravda, the Russian army also attacked Kyiv with missiles again overnight into 19 October, damaging a metro station in the city.

The attacks on Ukraine thus continued overnight into Monday. Several regions had already been affected in the days before. On 15 October, according to the head of the military administration of Kupiansk district, Andrii Kanashevych, Russian troops attacked the Velykyi Burluk community in Kharkiv region at least twice. According to his account, a 59-year-old man, a 58-year-old woman and an adult young woman were injured in air strikes on the village of Hnylytsia Persha around 14:00; in addition, 20 private houses and two administrative buildings were damaged. In attacks with guided aerial bombs on the settlement of Velykyi Burluk, two private houses were damaged and there were no casualties, the outlet Gwaramedia reported on 16 October.

In Zaporizhzhia region, the city of Vilniansk was hit on 14 October. According to the Zaporizhzhia district administration, quoted by the public broadcaster Suspilne, an industrial facility and an area near a residential settlement were hit. Five apartment blocks and three private houses were damaged, windows were blown out and roofs destroyed. There were no dead or injured. On the same day, according to earlier reports by Suspilne, the Russian army carried out two missile attacks on the residential area of the city of Zaporizhzhia. One private house was destroyed and another damaged. A 62-year-old man was freed from the rubble and resuscitated on site, but later died in hospital; two other people were injured.

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