Two-year-old girl killed after Russian missile strike hits Dnipro
Two-year-old girl is killed while five children are among the 22 injured after Russian missile strike hits Ukrainian city Dnipro: President Zelensky calls Putin’s regime a ‘terrorist state’
- The short-range missiles hit two buildings in the Pidhorodnenska community
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A two-year-old girl has been killed while 22 people, including five children, were injured after a Russian missile struck near the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
Her body was pulled from the rubble of a house in the Pidhorodnenska community, the region’s governor Serhiy Lysak said.
Mr Lysak also revealed that seventeen people were being treated in hospital, with five of those children and three boys in serious condition in hospital.
The short-range cruise missiles hit between two two-storey residential buildings, partially destroying them and damaging a number of houses, cars and infrastructure.
Speaking on Saturday after the first reports of the explosions, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote: ‘Once again, Russia proves it is a terrorist state.’
Rescuers work at the site of the residential building heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike
The region’s governor said a two-year-old girl was pulled from the rubble of a house in the Pidhorodnenska community
Pictures posted on social media showed rescue teams working at a shattered, smouldering building amid piles of twisted building materials.
Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk region council, said 17 children have died in the region since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
‘No words can soothe the pain of parents who have lost the most precious thing in their lives,’ Lukashuk said.
The country’s Office of the Prosecutor General claimed the war has killed at least 485 children in Ukraine and injured nearly 1,500.
Moscow and Kyiv deny their military forces target civilians.
Following the attack in Dnipro, Russia launched a new wave of overnight air strikes on the country.
Ukraine’s air force said on Sunday it destroyed more than half of the air targets.
Four of the six cruise missiles and three of the five Iranian-made Shahed drones launched by Russia were downed, the air force said on Telegram.
An aerial view of the damage left behind after the short-range missile strike
Kyiv’s city military administration earlier said all Russia-launched targets approaching the capital had been intercepted.
It was not immediately clear where the missiles and drones that were not destroyed hit.
Russia has repeatedly attacked Ukraine’s capital since May, chiefly at night, ahead of a long-expected Ukrainian counteroffensive to reclaim territory, in what Ukrainian officials say is an attempt to inflict psychological distress on civilians.
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