Man killed in Russian hit on house in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – photo

Yevhen Kizilov - 18 February, 19:22

Emergency workers clearing away rubble in the aftermath of a Russian strike on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

A 61-year-old man has been killed in a Russian attack on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine on social media

Details: In the Synelnykove district, Russian forces struck the Pokrovsk and Mezhova hromadas. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.] A house was completely destroyed in an airstrike.

Emergency workers found the body of a man under the rubble. A second attack caused a fire at another house which was quickly extinguished by firefighters.

Emergency workers carrying a body bag amid the rubble of a destroyed house

Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

In the Nikopol district, the Russians hit the city of Nikopol and the Myrove, Pokrovsk, Marhanets and Chervonohryhorivka hromadas. Houses, civilian infrastructure and cars were damaged.

No further casualties were reported.

Background: DeepState, a Ukrainian group of military analysts, reported earlier that Russian units have been driven back by Ukrainian defenders in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

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