In a night Russian missile attack in Dnipro in central-eastern Ukraine, seven people were injured and residential buildings in particular were damaged, the local governor said on Thursday.
“In the middle of the night there were violent explosions in Dnipro. The enemy hit the city with rockets,” Sergiy Lyssak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, told Telegram.
“Seven people were injured – three men and four women between the ages of 32 and 55,” Mr Lyssak added, adding that six people were hospitalized.
According to the governor, several buildings were damaged, including two residential buildings, a bank, a gas station and a hotel. The destruction is still being assessed, Mr Lyssak continued.
The Russian army said on July 29 it had hit a Ukrainian army command center in Dnipro the day before, with a rocket hitting a residential building in particular, injuring nine people, according to the governor.
According to authorities in May, a Russian attack on a clinic in the city, capital of the Dnepropetrovsk region, killed one person and wounded fifteen others, including two children.