11-year-old boy killed, five wounded as Russian forces strike Dnipropetrovsk Oblast again
An 11-year-old boy was killed, and five adults were hospitalized when Russian forces struck Dnipropetrovsk Oblast again, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service and the regional military administration reported.
In the Pokrovske territorial community of the Synelnykove district, a house caught fire and three other homes plus a car were damaged. An 11-year-old boy was killed. A 31-year-old woman, a 61-year-old woman and a 33-year-old man were injured and taken to hospital in moderate condition.
Overnight drone attacks hit the Pavlohrad district, damaging an administrative building and power lines in Pavlohrad and the Bohdanivka community.
Two men aged 52 and 66 were hospitalized with moderate injuries.
In Apostolove in the Kryvyi Rih district, infrastructure was damaged. The Nikopol district — including the town of Nikopol, the Chervonohryhorivka and Marhanets communities — saw damage to an administrative building, a house and a vehicle.
The previous day, April 6, Russian artillery and FPV drones struck the Nikopol district, wounding nine people including a 1.5-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy, and damaging infrastructure, a pharmacy, homes and cars.