Damaged caused by a Russian missile attack on Dnipro on July 8, 2024. (Serhii Lysak / Telegram)
Russia's mass missile attack killed one person in Dnipro and injured 12 others, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Serhii Lysak reported on July 8.
Explosions were heard in Dnipro at around 10:45 a.m. local time. The cities of Kyiv, Kryvyi Rih, Sloviansk, and Kramatorsk also came under attack.
According to President Volodymyr Zelensky, more than 40 missiles of various types were used by Russia in the attack.
Lysak said that a high-rise building, an enterprise, and a service station in Dnipro had been damaged in the strike. One person is in the hospital in a serious condition.
Local authorities in Kryvyi Rih, another city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, said that at least 10 people had been killed and 37 injured due to "several" strikes.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto described the strike as "an attack on Hungary’s sovereignty," saying it "endangered our energy security and nearly (forced) the use of our strategic reserves."
Ukrainian military intelligence (HUR) struck a Russian 91N6E radar system, part of the S-400 Triumph air defense system, in occupied Crimea overnight on Aug. 28, HUR reported.
Some 219,000 Russian soldiers were killed in the war in Ukraine, Mediazona and Meduza reported, basing the calculations on the list of verified deaths and other data.
Ukrainian forces downed 46 out of the 68 drones, including Shahed-type attack drones and decoys, launched by Russia overnight, the Air Force reported. Twenty-two drones managed to strike at nine different locations.
"Perhaps both sides of this war are not ready to end it themselves," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said after another deadly Russian attack on Kyiv.
The buffer zone is being weighed by European leaders as an option for a ceasefire or postwar arrangement between Ukrainian and Russian forces, but the U.S. is not involved in the discussions, five unnamed European diplomats said.
"This strike clearly shows that Russia’s goals have not changed. They want war — and they are striking not only our people, not only our cities and communities. Russia is now striking at everyone in the world who seeks peace," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
The U.S. State Department approved a military sale to Ukraine for Extended Range Attack Munition (ERAM) missiles and related equipment worth an estimated $825 million, the agency announced on Aug. 28.
India's Russian oil imports are expected to increase by 10-20% in September, in spite of U.S. tariffs aimed at pressuring New Delhi into severing economic ties with Moscow.
Martin Fornusek
