One girl was killed and 22 people injured in the airstrike near Dnipro
A two-year-old girl was killed and 22 people injured in an airstrike on Dnipro in central Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russian forces of an “attack on the city” on Saturday evening and pointed out that other victims were trapped in the rubble of two apartment buildings.
According to the governor of the Dnipro region, Serhi Lyssak, two buildings as well as ten houses, a shop and a gas pipeline were destroyed during the strike on Saturday. The body of a young girl had been recovered from the rubble, he reported on Sunday morning. “Overnight the body of a little girl was recovered from the rubble of a house” in Pidhorodne, “she had just turned two years old,” he posted on Telegram. In addition, “22 people were injured, including 5 children,” he added in his latest assessment of the attack on Dnipro district.
On Facebook, the President of Ukraine condemned the attack and posted a video showing rescuers digging through the rubble to the sound of jackhammers. “Russia is proving once again that it is a terrorist state. “The Russians will bear responsibility for everything that is committed against our state and our people,” criticized the Ukrainian president.
In Kiev, the head of the military administration said the capital’s air defenses repelled several missiles and drones overnight. “According to initial information, no air target has reached the capital,” wrote Serhi Popko on Sunday on the Telegram social network.
Across the border, Ukrainian shelling killed two people in Belgorod, Russia, on Saturday, oblast governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. Border villages in this region have been hit by unprecedented artillery fire in recent days, with a total of seven people killed this week, according to Russian sources.