One killed and five injured in Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – photo

Tetyana Oliynyk — 8 August 2025, 21:12
One killed and five injured in Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – photo
A firefighter extinguishing a fire. Photo: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration

Explosions have shaken two districts in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast as Russian forces carried out around 40 attacks on 8 August. One woman has been killed and five other people have been injured.

Source: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration on Telegram

Quote: "In the Nikopol district, the aggressor deployed drones, mounted artillery strikes and dropped munitions from UAVs. They targeted the city of Nikopol and the Marhanets, Myrove, Pokrovske and Chervonohryhorivka hromadas. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.] 

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Three people were injured – two men aged 45 and 68 and a 56-year-old woman." 

Details: Russian forces also targeted the Mezhova, Pokrovske and Malomykhailivka hromadas in the Synelnykove district. They used drones and a guided aerial bomb, injuring a woman.

Update: Later, Serhii Lysak, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, added that the Russians killed a 56-year-old woman in Nikopol. Emergency workers retrieved her body from under the rubble of a house destroyed by Russian artillery.

 
Emergency workers
Photo: Serhii Lysak

A 62-year-old man was injured. He was taken to hospital in a serious condition.

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