Английская Википедия:Dnipro strikes (2022–present)

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During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces have launched several missile attacks over the city of Dnipro in Ukraine. These have led to dozens of fatalities and over a hundred injuries among the civilian population.

Strikes in 2022

March

Dnipro was first hit during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on 11 March 2022. Three missiles hit the city and killed one person, striking close to an apartment building and a kindergarten. On 15 March, the Dnipro International Airport was heavily damaged by Russian missiles. This destroyed the runaway of the airport. On 30 March, Russian forces struck an oil terminal in Dnipro, destroying it. There were no casualties.

April

Another attack on the Dnipro airport on 10 April completely destroyed the airport and the infrastructure nearby. One Ukrainian Su-25 was destroyed in the ground inside its hangar, one Ukrainian technician was wounded as well.

June

On 28 June, Russian forces fired six 3M-14E Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea to Dnipro at around 5:30 local time. One of them hit an Avtodiesel car repair shop, killing a man and a woman. Other seven people, including a six-year-old boy, were injured. Fragments of the Kalibr missile were found afterwards.

July

An attack on Dnipro proper was carried out by Russian armed forces on 15 July 2022. As a result, four people died, 16 were injured. The main target was the largest space plant of Ukraine located within the city.

The city was shelled from Tu-95 aircraft from the northern part of the Caspian Sea with X-101 missiles. According to preliminary data, a total of 8 rockets were fired. Four missiles were shot down by the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces. Each missile costs 13 million dollars (8 missiles cost Russia more than 100 million dollars).

Part of the rockets hit the "Pivdenmash" enterprise. As a result of the impact, the city's water supply was damaged, and part of the city's residents were left without water supply. More than ten cars were damaged, doors and windows were destroyed in residential buildings.

Four people were killed. One of the victims is a city bus driver. On the first day, 15 wounded were reported, and the next day their number increased to 16.

September

On the morning of 29 September 2022 missiles hit residential areas in Dnipro, and three people were killed. The central bus station was also hit.

October

Шаблон:See also Dnipro was also hit during the 10 October 2022 Russian missile strikes on critical infrastructure. It was hit by at least five missiles. During the attack that took place during morning rush hour three civilians were killed.

On 18 October 2022 Russian missile strikes targeted the energy infrastructure of Dnipro. One man was injured and a large-scale fire broke out at an energy infrastructure facility that was severely damaged. Also more than three dozen residential buildings were damaged, including schools and kindergartens.

On 25 October 2022 two people were killed, including a pregnant woman, and four injured due to a fire at a petrol station in Dnipro after fragments of a Russian missile had hit it.

November

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Houses in Dnipro after the strike on 26 November

In the early hours of 9 November 2022 Russian forces deployed kamikaze drones in an attack hitting a logistics business and causing a large fire. Four employees sustained injuries, three severe. Anti-aircraft defence systems (reportedly) destroyed five loitering munitions.

Around 08:30 in the morning of 15 November, while people where commuting to work, Dnipro was hit by a strike on (according to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal) the PA Pivdenmash missile plant. Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Valentyn Reznichenko stated that an industrial company, houses, trolleybuses and a "lively street" were damaged. Reznichenko claimed that 23 people were injured, including a teenager. Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov claimed a city hall employee was wounded in the attack while out helping elderly women.

On 26 November 2022, around noon, a Russian missile strike on Dnipro injured 13 people and partially destroyed seven private houses in Dnipro's Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District. Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov reported that city communications and infrastructure were not damaged. Governor Valentyn Reznichenko stated that due to the attack one woman was hospitalised in critical condition. The following day Reznichenko reported that a man was found dead under the rubble.

A Russian nightly multiple missile strike destroyed an enterprise 29 November 2022. No (human) casualties were reported.

Strikes in 2023

January

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Aftermath of the 15 January attack

On 14 January a multi-storey residential building in Dnipro was hit by a Russian attack. The explosion was heard at approximately 3:41 p.m. A local air alert had begun at 2:00 p.m. On 19 January, 46 people are known to be killed and 80 to be injured. 11 people remain missing. 39 people were rescued.

March

On 9 March Dnipro was also hit during a nationwide Russian missile strike. According to the Dnipro City Council dozens of buildings were damaged by blast waves and in more than 120 apartments windows were broken. Fragments of a rocket were scattered almost all over the terrain of yacht club Sich. No casualties were reported.

During a night attack on 27-28 March a Russian drone hit a private business in Dnipro and caused a large-scale fire. No casualties were reported. According to Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak two other Russian drones were shot down over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

April

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The house destroyed on 28 April

On 28 April a mother and her three-year-old daughter were killed in their home in a rural suburb of Dnipro. According to Governor Lysak seven Russian missiles had targeted the city. Local police told neighbours (of the victims) that fragments of one of them, shot down by air defences, appeared to have fallen on the house.

May

On 3 May, in the night, a drone hit an administrative building in Dnipro. According to Governor Lysak it was set on fire, although that was put out by morning. Lysak also reported that the attack had not lead to casualties. Ukrainian Air Defence Forces reported that they had shot down 7 missiles flying over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and that this one drone had (still) hit its target.

In the evening of 8 May a 32-year-old woman was wounded and hospitalised when debris from Russian missiles fell on a four-storey building in Dnipro. A missile warhead was found on the third floor of the building. All eight missiles launched by Russian forces on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were downed by Ukrainian Air Defence Forces.

During the night of 21–22 May the premises of a private firm were hit by a Russian missile strike; eight people were injured (three of them hospitalised) and three buildings were damaged as a result. 20 pieces of equipment of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine were destroyed. Ukraine's air defence forces reported that they had shot down 15 Russian drones and four cruise missiles during the attack on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

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Clinic in Dnipro after the strike on 26 May

On 26 May a Russian missile strike hit an outpatient clinic and a veterinarian clinic, killing 4 people and injuring 30 (three severely wounded). The missile attack hit a three-storey building within a medical institution that was partially destroyed and caught fire. The fire then also engulfed a neighbouring building. Among the injured were a baby and a child, born in 2020 and 2017 respectively. 27 May was declared a day of mourning for those who died as a result of the attack.

June

During the night of 3–4 June a Russian missiles struck a residential area killing a two-year-old girl and injuring another 22 people, including five children. The attack destroyed or damaged several buildings in Pidhorodne, which lies on the outskirts of Dnipro city. According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces one Iskander-K missile had hit a two-story apartment building. (According to local police) 10 private houses, cars, shops and gas pipelines were destroyed after a fire broke out as a result of the explosion. The rescue operation was completed at 3:00 AM.

In the nighttime of 24 June 11 people, including three children, were injured in a missile attack that destroyed four homes in a residential area. The blast wave damaged more than 20 buildings.

July

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The building, hit on 28 July

At around 20.30 hour on 28 July 2023 a Russian missiles attack (locals heard two explosions) hit a high-rise building in the centre of Dnipro. A new residential complex, where many apartments were still uninhabited, was damaged. An office of the Security Service of Ukraine was also hit, but was reported to have been not in use for a while. Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov claimed that Russian Iskander missals had hit the buildings. Nine injured were reported and no deaths have been reported. On 29 July 2023 Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed "On the evening of July 28, the Russian Armed Forces targeted the Ukrainian armed forces' command center in the city of Dnipro with high-precision weapons. The target was hit."

August

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Palace of water sports damaged on 15 August

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Bomb shelter in Dnipro, August 2023

At 4:20 hour on 15 August 2023 one of the industrial facilities in Dnipro was hit, 2 wounded were reported. At around the same time a swimming pool was also hit, with no casualties reported. Later that day Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed that these attacks had been a "concentrated blow to key enterprises in the military industry of the Kyiv regime." According to him, the goal of the strikes was achieved.

At around 2:30 hour on 24 August 2023 (Ukrainian independence day) multiple rockets hit Шаблон:Ill. Ten people were injured, six were hospitalised with minor injuries. 15 shops near the station were destroyed or damaged. Besides the bus station 10 other buildings were also damaged including two residential buildings, a bank, a petrol station, a hotel, premises belonging to an agricultural company, a furniture manufacturer and an administrative building. Additionally three buses and several cars, a trolleybus network line, as well as water and gas pipelines, were damaged. Later that day Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed that the previous night "a multiple-launch strike by seaborne and ground-based long-range precision weapons against a Ukrainian military command center" had destroyed this target.

September

On 23 September Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak reported that the previous night wreckage from a shot down Russian drone had damaged "a critical infrastructure facility" in Dnipro.

October

On 3 October Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak reported that falling debris, of the 13 UAVs and a cruise missile that had been shot down over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, had caused a fire at a Dnipro private firm that was quickly doused. In a later update Lysak stated that a school, a kindergarten, a petrol station and three apartment buildings in Dnipro were damaged by "fragments of downed Russian junk"; in addition to a warehouse being destroyed by fire.

December

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Aftermath of the missile strike on a shopping mall

On 29 December 2023, Russia launched at least 122 cruise and ballistic missiles and 36 drones which struck multiple cities (Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv and Lviv and) including Dnipro, in what was one of the largest aerial attacks on Ukraine so far. Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak reported that 6 people died and 28 people were injured in the attack. Missiles struck a shopping centre, a maternity hospital a house and a six-storey residential building. Local online newspaper Informator reported that at the time of the attack in the maternity hospital there were 12 women giving birth, four newborns and medical personnel. All of them survived since they had relocated to a shelter. Two schools and a library were also damaged as a result of the rocket attacks.

The following day was declared a day of mourning.

Two days after the attack another man died in hospital due to injuries sustained in the 29 December 2023 attacks. On 31 December 2023 eighteen, including a 18 month-old baby, attack victims were still in hospital. Two patients were in serious condition.

Strikes in 2024

February

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Video by the National Police of Ukraine of a Shahed drone "type 136" landed by air defense in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on 9 February 2024.

In the evening of 12 February a thermal power plant in Dnipro was significantly damaged in a drone and missile attack (one missile and 11 drones). No casualties were reported. The plant stopped operations.

Ukrainian Air Defence Forces reported that they had shot down 10 Shahed drones flying over Dnipro Raion, but that this one drone had (still) hit its target. The all-clear was given at 00:35 on 13 February.

On 13 February a city hospital was evacuated and several city school were closed due to heating issues.

In the night of 22-23 February a Russian Shahed kamikaze drone hit a high-rise residential building in Dnipro's Amur-Nyzhniodniprovskyi District and an unnamed businessfacility. Eight people were injured. Ukrainian Air Defence Forces claimed five attack drones were destroyed in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, but others could not be intercepted. In the afternoon of 23 February the lifeless bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from the rubble of the apartment building. Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov declared 24 February a day of mourning.

In the evening of 25 February 10 private houses and several cars were damaged due to a Russian attack. The attack injures two man and two woman. According to Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak air defence had downed three cruise missiles and three UAVs.