Russian strike kills five, wounds 25 in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region
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Ukrainian rescuers evacuating an injured person following Russian shelling in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine, on June 24.
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- A Russian strike on June 27 in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region killed five and wounded 25, as Moscow intensifies bombardments in the area.
- Ukraine claimed it destroyed two Russian SU-34 fighter-bombers and damaged two more at Marynivka airfield in Volgograd region.
- Earlier in the week, Russian strikes in Dnipro and Samar killed at least 23; Moscow also claimed capture of two villages near Dnipropetrovsk.
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KYIV – A Russian strike on June 27 killed five people and wounded 25 in Ukraine’s industrial Dnipropetrovsk region, where Moscow has stepped up deadly bombardments, the authorities said.
Russian forces, which invaded Ukraine early in 2022, are trying to gain a foothold in Dnipropetrovsk for the first time in the war.
Regional Governor Serhiy Lysak said the attack was on the town of Samar, outside the region’s main city of Dnipro, in central Ukraine.
Ukraine claimed to have struck four Russian Su-34 tactical aircraft in an overnight long-range drone attack on an airbase in the Volgograd region, not far from the border between the two countries.
Kyiv “conducted a joint special operation, as a result of which two Russian SU-34 fighter-bombers at the Marynivka airfield were destroyed and two more were damaged”, Ukraine’s SBU security service said in a statement.
Russian forces earlier this week struck both Dnipro and Samar with missiles, leaving at least 23 dead.
Ukrainian military officials have said that previous Russian strikes near Samar hit Ukrainian military training facilities.
Moscow earlier this week claimed to have captured two more villages near the border of the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Separately, the authorities in the northern region of Kharkiv said Russian attacks killed one person and wounded three others, without specifying where the attack had taken place. AFP
