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A Russian artillery assault towards Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on April 17 killed two males aged 56 and 61 and injured 5 folks, Governor Serhii Lysak reported.
4 of the injured victims have been hospitalized and are in critical situation, Lysak mentioned.
The assault prompted a fireplace to interrupt out within the metropolis. In line with the governor, a store, a restaurant, a number of homes, outbuildings, vehicles, and a bus cease had been broken.
Nikopol, positioned on the banks of the destroyed Kakhovka Reservoir, simply throughout from Russian-occupied Enerhodar and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Energy Plant, is a daily goal of artillery and drone strikes.
A minimum of 5 folks had been killed and nearly 70 injured in Russian assaults towards Ukraine over the previous day, regional authorities reported within the morning of April 17.
This included three folks killed, together with a baby, and 30 injured in an assault towards the regional heart of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Dnipro, on April 16.
The widespread assaults come amid continued Russian rejection of a full ceasefire settlement, beforehand backed by Kyiv, and comply with latest intensification of strikes on civilian areas throughout Ukraine.
The Kyiv IndependentVolodymyr Ivanyshyn