Woman hospitalised in critical condition after Russian strike on Nikopol
A woman has been taken to hospital in critical condition after being injured in a Russian attack on the city of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Source: Oleksandr Hanzha, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration
Quote: "In Nikopol, a 33-year-old woman has been injured as a result of an enemy strike. She has been hospitalised in a critical condition."
Details: Hanzha also reported that Russian forces were attacking the Nikopol district throughout the day.
Quote: "They were using artillery and FPV drones against settlements in the Pokrovska, Chervonohryhorivka, Marhanets and Myrove hromadas.
The strikes damaged two five-storey apartment buildings, two houses, a vehicle, infrastructure and a gas pipeline. Two outbuildings have been destroyed." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]
Background:
- Russian forces have also struck other parts of Ukraine during the day. A passenger train travelling from Kharkiv Oblast to the west of Ukraine with 291 passengers on board has been hit in a Russian Shahed drone attack.
- Russian troops also killed a civilian couple from the village of Hrabovske in the Krasnopillia district in Sumy Oblast during an attempted evacuation.
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