Three killed and 10 injured in Russian attack on Dnipro – photos, video

Olha Hlushchenko, Iryna Balachuk, Anastasia Protz — 23 April, 10:30
Three killed and 10 injured in Russian attack on Dnipro – photos, video
Damaged apartments. Photo: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council

Russian forces attacked the city of Dnipro on the night of 22-23 April, damaging residential areas, sparking fires and killing three people, with another 10 injured.

Source: Oleksandr Hanzha, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram; Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov

Quote: "Two people have been killed and eight injured. One person is still unaccounted for."

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Details: Filatov reported at 10:30 that the death toll had risen to three.

Apartments on fire
Apartments on fire
Photo: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration

Hanzha said fires had broken out in several parts of the city following the attack. Residential buildings were damaged.

Firefighters extinguishing the fire
Firefighters extinguishing the fire
Photo: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration

He later wrote that Russian forces had hit a high-rise residential building in Dnipro, with several apartments catching fire.

Apartments on fire
Apartments on fire
Photo: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration

Among those injured were two women aged 62 and 68 (hospitalised in a moderate condition), a 35-year-old man (treated as an outpatient) and two children (aged 9 and 14, taken to hospital).

Hanzha later reported that the number of people injured had risen to 10.

"Four people have been hospitalised in a moderate condition, including two children – girls aged 9 and 14," he added.

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