Three people are still missing after a health facility in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was hit by a Russian drone strike on Friday, according to the local governor.
Two people were confirmed dead already on Friday.
“So far, 90 percent of the racial masses have been cleaned up,” writes Serhij Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk county, on Telegram.
According to him, 32 people were injured. 13 of these remain in hospital and five are described as seriously injured.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentions the attack on Dnipro in a video speech on social media. There he emphasizes that the Ukrainian government will do everything it can to ensure that the country is provided with additional air defense systems by its allies.
“During this week, we also made significant progress in supplying Ukraine with modern fighter jets, which will become a key component of our air defense,” Zelensky announced.
Dnipro is Ukraine’s fourth largest city and is about ten kilometers from the front line. The city has been the target of Russian robot attacks on several occasions in recent weeks. In January, one of the worst attacks on civilians to date took place there, when a Russian robot crashed into a high-rise apartment building and at least 45 people were killed.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded a total of 967 Russian attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine during the full-scale war.
Russian alarm about attack
In Russia’s border regions, Ukrainian shelling and drone attacks were reported on Friday, mainly against the towns in the Belgorod region that were attacked in an unusually large advance across the border earlier this week. After fighting in which Russia called in the air force and fired artillery, the Kremlin has declared that any future attacks will be met with an “extremely severe” response.
In the larger Russian city of Krasnodar, which lies east of the annexed Crimean peninsula, two drones are reported to have crashed on Friday.
During the night, there have been drone attacks against oil pipelines and associated buildings in Russia.
In the Pskov region, two drones crashed in or near a building belonging to an oil pipeline operated by the oil giant Transneft. The attack took place in a town located next to the northern border of Belarus and just east of Latvia.
In the Tver region, further inland and northwest of Moscow, two drones have attacked an oil refinery that is part of the major Druzhba oil pipeline, according to the independent news platform Baza and several Russian military bloggers.