Dnipropetrovsk Oblast: Russian MLRS attack residential neighbourhoods in Nikopol
SATURDAY, 16 JULY 2022, 07:57
Russia has deployed Grad multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) in an attack on residential neighbourhoods in the city of Nikopol, in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. A woman sustained injuries and was hospitalised.
Source: Valentyn Reznichenko, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram
Details: Twelve five-storey apartment buildings, a school and a technical college were damaged in the Russian attack. According to preliminary information, two people remain trapped under the rubble of the destroyed buildings.
Rescue workers are at work at the scene; they are clearing away the rubble and searching for people who may be trapped underneath.
In the Kryvyi Rih district, Zelenodolsk, Apostolove and Shyroke hromadas [amalgamated territorial communities - ed.] all came under Russian fire. Some of the housing stock in Shestirnia was damaged, and a fire broke out in the yard of a private house. There were no casualties.
