Number of casualties in Russian strike on Nikopol district rises

"They were shelling Chervonohryhorivka, Marhanets, and Nikopol communities. Grad MLRS and heavy artillery shells slammed into the residential neighborhoods because the Russians have long had nothing human. A 65-year-old man was killed in the shelling. Five people were injured: two women, 38 and 67, two men, 35 and 66, and a 16-year-old girl. One injured is at home, the others were hospitalized. The people were provided with the necessary assistance," Mykola Lukashuk, Chairman of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, posted on Telegram.

Lukashuk added that the enemy fire damaged two dozen private houses, a dozen five-story apartment blocks, 14 outbuildings, a college, a school, shops, six cars, gas pipelines, and power lines in Marhanets. In Nikopol, a five-story apartment block, four private houses, outbuildings, and a healthcare facility were damaged. One fire was put out. In Chervonohryhorivka community, more than two dozen residential buildings and outbuildings, a filling station, and the power lines were damaged.

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