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Russian drone attack on Synelnykove kills four, injures 14

Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast killed four people and injured 14, including an 11-year-old girl. According to Governor Oleksandr Hanzha, a 62-year-old man died in hospital on Sunday morning.

Russian drone attack on Synelnykove kills four, injures 14
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Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast killed four people and injured 14, including an 11-year-old girl. According to Governor Oleksandr Hanzha, a 62-year-old man died in hospital on Sunday morning.

Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast killed four people and injured 14 others, including an 11-year-old girl. This was reported by the head of the regional administration, Governor Oleksandr Hanzha, according to the news outlet Ukrainska Pravda on Sunday, 25 October.

According to the report, Russian forces attacked three districts of the oblast more than 20 times in the past 24 hours with drones and an aerial bomb.

The focus was on Synelnykove Raion. According to Hanzha, the district centre of Synelnykove as well as the communities of Vasylkivka, Slavhorod, Petropavlivka and Mykolaivka were attacked there. Private and multi-family houses, shops, infrastructure and cars were damaged.

In the attack on Synelnykove on Saturday, 24 October, three people died initially and 13 others were injured. Among the injured is the 11-year-old girl, who according to Ukrainska Pravda is being treated as an outpatient. On the morning of 25 October it became known that a 62-year-old man who had been seriously injured in the attack died in hospital. Four other injured people were still in a serious condition in hospital, according to the report.

The Kyiv Independent reported, citing Hanzha, that a drone hit a residential building and triggered a fire on the fourth floor of a multi-family house; vehicles and a shop were also damaged there. Five injured people were treated in hospital, three of them – two women and a man – were in a serious condition and underwent surgery.

In Nikopol Raion, according to Ukrainska Pravda, the city of Nikopol as well as the communities of Marhanets, Chervonohryhorivka and Pokrovsk were attacked. A private house was damaged, and a 50-year-old man was taken to hospital with moderate injuries. Infrastructure was damaged in the city of Dnipro.

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