At least five people were injured on Friday in a Russian strike on the city of Dnipro in central-eastern Ukraine, which hit an apartment building and a security service building, authorities said.
“Five people were injured following a Russian strike on a multi-storey building in Dnipro,” Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on Telegram, revising upwards a previous toll of three injured.
Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Bakoumov pointed out on Telegram that this city of one million inhabitants before the war had been the target of a Russian “missile attack”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky added that the Ukrainian security service building in Dnipro was also hit by the Russian strike.
“Russian missiles have once again sown terror,” he commented on Telegram, promising to make Russia “accountable” and “punished.”
Videos posted on social networks and in the Ukrainian media show the top floors of a residential complex partly gutted and smoking, while the courtyard is littered with debris.
The governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serguiï Lyssak, for his part evoked a fire caused on 100 square meters in an “administrative building”.
This attack in Ukraine came hours after Russian authorities announced the interception of two Ukrainian missiles over southwestern Russia.
The falling debris from one of them injured at least 16 people, including one seriously, in the town of Taganrog, near the Ukrainian border, they said.
28/07/2023 23:07:39 – Kiev (Ukraine) (AFP) © 2023 AFP