During the night of 7 May, Russian forces launched a drone strike on Dnipro, causing damage to residential buildings.
According to Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, a fire broke out in a flat in a five-storey residential building as a result of the attack. According to updated information as of 7 a.m., the number of injured in Dnipro has risen to two.
Several nearby buildings and cars were also damaged.
In total, four people have been injured across the region. A 60-year-old man was wounded in the Nikopol district, while a 43-year-old person was injured in Kamyanske.
Russian forces also attacked Pavlohrad, the Bohdanivka community, and the settlements of Petropavlivka and Mezhivka in the Synelnykivskyy district.
Today, a day of mourning has been declared in Dnipro for the 14 people killed by the Russian army between 25 April and 6 May.
- From midnight on 6 May, Ukraine declared a ceasefire, but Russian forces immediately violated it with strikes on Dnipro. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that Ukrainian troops would respond in kind to Russian actions, adding that the Victory Day parade in Moscow “now depends on us”.