• 09/21/2024

Teenager among 5 Dnipro civilians injured by Russian missile wreckage

Pravda Ukraine

Ukrainian forces downed a Russian cruise missile in the Dnipro district around 18:00 on Sunday, 14 April. The wreckage injured five civilians and damaged several buildings in Dnipro.

Source: Ukraine’s Air Force; Serhii Lysak, the Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram

Quote from Ukraine’s Air Force: “A unit of the Skhid (East) Air Command destroyed a cruise missile in the Dnipro district at 17:50.”

Quote from Lysak: “Air defence forces destroyed an enemy missile in the Dnipro district. Several private houses in the city of Dnipro were damaged by the missile wreckage. Two civilians are so far known to have sustained injuries. There’s smoke in the Liubymivka hromada. Details will be reported later.

Details: Lysak also said that four people sustained injuries in Russian attacks on the city of Nikopol on Sunday.

Updated: Lysak later said that the number of casualties of the missile wreckage crashing in Dnipro has risen to five, including three men, a woman, and a 15-year-old boy who sustained shrapnel wounds and a contusion.

Nine private houses were also damaged.

Missile wreckage also damaged a car in the Liubymivka hromada and injured three civilians, all of whom refused to be hospitalised.

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