Emergency workers at the scene of a missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, 21 September 2024. Photo: Serhiy Lysak / Telegram
Three people were killed in a Russian missile strike on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih in the early hours of Saturday morning, Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak wrote on Telegram.
Lysak said a 12-year-old boy and two elderly women had died and that three other people were injured in the attack, which he said had targeted residential areas of Kryvyi Rih, causing two houses to catch fire, and destroying two others.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported that there had also been a Russian missile strike on the nearby city of Dnipro overnight in which one person was injured and a building was destroyed.
The Dnipropetrovsk region’s Nikopol district was also targeted, Lysak said, with one person injured and minor damage caused.
Russian forces attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region with four Iskander ballistic missiles fired from annexed Crimea and Russia’s southern Rostov region, as well as with five guided missiles launched from the partially occupied Zaporizhzhia region and 16 Shahed drones, according to the Ukrainian Air Force, which added that it had shot down five guided missiles and 11 attack drones, as well as disabling another five drones using electronic warfare.
