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Russian attack on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast kills man

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Russian attack on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast kills man
A road sign that reads “Dnipropetrovsk Oblast” on June 21, 2022. Photo for illustrative purposes. (Oleksii Samsonov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Russian troops attacked the Dnipro district in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on April 20, killing a 54-year-old man, local governor Serhii Lysak reported.

According to Lysak, the man was killed while he was repairing a car near the scene of the attack.

The Russian strike also caused a fire, but emergency services extinguished it as of 4:35 p.m. local time.

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast is regularly the target of Russian attacks on civilians.

Russian troops on April 19 carried out a missile attack, hitting the regional center of Dnipro and the Synelnykove district.

The rescue operations in Dnipro ended the next day, with three killed and 24 injured. The five-story building and the railway station in the city's downtown were partially destroyed.

In the Synelnykove district, a total of five, including an 8-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, were killed, and 10 others were injured due to the recent strike.

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Kateryna Hodunova is a News Editor at the Kyiv Independent. She previously worked as a sports journalist in several Ukrainian outlets and was the deputy chief editor at Suspilne Sport. Kateryna covered the 2022 Olympics in Beijing and was included in the Special Mentions list at the AIPS Sport Media Awards. She holds a bachelor's degree in political journalism from Taras Shevchenko University and a master's degree in political science from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

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