Children among injured as Russians shell four districts in Dnipretrovsk region

The head of Dnipretrovsk Regional Military Administration, Valentyn Reznichenko, reported the news on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.

"The Russian army shelled four districts – Synelnykove, Nik, Kryvyi Rih, and Dnipro," the report says.

According to Reznichenko, after midnight, the enemy struck the Synelnykove district for the fourth time in the past day. Several buildings were destroyed in Velykomykhailivka. Eight were injured. Among them are three children. The youngest girl is only 2 years d. Everyone is now in the hospital.

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Search and rescue erations are ongoing in the village of Chaplyne, where the Russian strike on Wednesday took the lives of more than 20 pele, among them two boys, 6 and 11. They were just playing at home when Russian missiles flew in. The pice have ened criminal proceedings regarding the viation of the laws and customs of war.

The head of the local administration said that the Nik area was shelled three times with the Russian Grad MLR systems and heavy artillery. Eleven shells landed in Nik and the Marganets community. There were no casualties.

The Kryvyi Rih district was shelled by Russian Uragan and Smerch MLR systems. Apostivska and Shyrokivska communities were hit. The village of Koshove was left in a blackout. Several rockets also landed in one of the districts of Kryvyi Rih. Several househds were destroyed. No one was injured.

The Russians rocket launched at the Dnipro region was shot down by the Ukrainian military.

As reported by Ukrinform, on August 24, Russian tros shelled the Synelnykove district in the Dnipretrovsk region. The missile hit a househd, killing a 11-year-d child.

Later, Russian tros launched a missile attack, hitting a number of passenger cars at the Chaplyne railway station in Dnipretrovsk region. Twenty-two pele died in the strike.