Russian forces hit Nikopol using Grad MLRS, injuring civilians and damaging 20 apartment buildings
TUESDAY, 6 SEPTEMBER 2022, 07:50
Russian forces used Grad multiple-launch rocket systems (MLRS) to fire on the Nikopol district in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast three times over the course of the night of 5–6 September. A man and a woman were hospitalised following an attack on a residential neighbourhood in the city of Nikopol.
Source: Valentyn Reznichenko, Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, on Telegram
Details: Doctors have assessed the condition of the two hospitalised civilians to be moderate.
Twenty multi-storey apartment buildings and 11 private houses were damaged in the city of Nikopol following the Russian attack. One house was completely destroyed. Russian rockets targeted a kindergarten, two lyceums [specialised secondary schools], an arts centre and a sports club. Several cars, gas pipelines and power lines were also damaged, leaving over 2,000 households without power.
The Russian attack on the Marhanets hromada [amalgamated territorial community, an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories] resulted in no casualties and no damage to municipal or private property.
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