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Russian forces attack Dnipro with Shahed UAVs, causing damage and fires

Sunday, 5 May 2024, 07:44
Russian forces attack Dnipro with Shahed UAVs, causing damage and fires
A piece of wreckage of a Russian Shahed UAV. Photo: Army Inform, a Ukrainian military-related news outlet

Soldiers from Air Command Skhid (East) shot down 12 Russian drones over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the night of 4-5 May. The crashing wreckage has damaged infrastructure facilities and a high-rise building in the city of Dnipro and caused fires.

Source: Serhii Lysak, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration

Details: Lysak added that one drone had been shot down in the Kryvyi Rih district, another in the Nikopol district, and ten more in the Dnipro district.

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Quote: "Infrastructure facilities have been damaged in Dnipro due to falling wreckage and strikes. Several fires broke out.  A high-rise building has also been damaged.

Two cars have been severely damaged in Slobozhanske hromada, and a store has also been affected." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Background: On the night of 4-5 May, explosions were heard in the city of Dnipro. Ukrainian authorities had previously issued an air-raid warning in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

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