Kiev: Russian forces struck Dnipro and Nikopol cities on the intervening night of September 10 and 11, injuring four people, said Valentyn Reznichenko, Head of Dnipro Oblast state administration, on Telegram on Sunday.
The Russian army have fired a missile on Dnipro city centre as they hit a residential quarter, Ukrainska Pravda reported.
A 72-year-old man was injured and taken to hospital in a critical condition. Administrative buildings, stores, the market, warehouses and residential buildings were severely damaged.
Nikopol was attacked three times during Saturday evening.
The Russian army struck the city with more than 35 projectiles from Grad MLRS and shelled from heavy artillery.
Three people were injured, of which two were men and one woman.
The men were hospitalised as their condition is moderately critical.
Thirty-five multi-storey and private buildings, several educational institutions, an outpatient clinic, an industrial infrastructure facility, cars, gas pipelines and power lines were severely damaged.
The Russian troops also hit Marhanets hromada (administrative unit designating a town, village or several villages and their adjacent territories), but there, no people were injured and no buildings were destroyed.
(IANS)
