Russian attacks killed two men and wounded seven other people across Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Tuesday, Oct. 20, with a strike on warehouses on the outskirts of Dnipro causing both deaths.
Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, reported that Russian forces struck four of the region’s districts nearly 70 times with drones and artillery.
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The identities of victims were still being established at the time of the report.
Two men suffer severe burns in Dnipro
The strike set fire to warehouses in a suburb of Dnipro, the regional capital, and damaged nearby infrastructure.
According to Hanzha, emergency crews found the two bodies after putting out the blaze.
Four people were injured in the city, two of them hospitalized in serious condition; a 33-year-old man who suffered burns over his entire body, and a 30-year-old man also being treated for severe burns.
Shelling hit three more districts
In the Synelnykove district, Russian forces targeted the district center and the Petropavlivka community, damaging infrastructure and private homes.
A 65-year-old man was hospitalized in moderate condition, Hanzha said.
Russia also shelled the town of Nikopol and the Marhanets, Chervonohryhorivka and Pokrovske communities in the Nikopol district, which lies across the Dnipro River from Russian-occupied territory.
The attacks damaged an enterprise, private homes and vehicles. A 41-year-old man was injured and has received outpatient treatment.
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In the Hrushivka community of the Kryvyi Rih district, a 66-year-old man was injured and hospitalized. Doctors described his condition as moderate, according to Hanzha.
The Dnipropetrovsk region faces a near-daily barrage. On Monday, Oct. 19, Russia struck the region over 20 times, killing two people and injuring 10, including a 15-year-old boy.
Kryvyi Rih, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown, faced the brunt of the attack. Two people were killed and eight were injured in the city alone.
The strikes came on the same day that a Russian drone struck a park in Nova Vodolaha, Kharkiv region, killing six people, including an infant just over a year old who was in her stroller at the time of the attack.
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