Russia shelled the Novomoskovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region, there are casualties and significant damage. This was announced by the head of the regional council Nikolai Lukashuk in his Telegram channel.
He added that there were other strikes during the day.
“As a result of a missile strike that took place in Krivoy Rog during the day, two people were injured. The occupiers got into the object of social infrastructure. Two private houses and a garage were also destroyed. Relevant services are still working on site. In addition, during the day, the invaders fired on the territory of the Apostolic community. Due to the shelling, the power line was damaged, now everything has been restored.”
The information was confirmed by the head of the Dnepropetrovsk OVA Valentin Reznichenko on his Facebook page. “We have an “arrival” again. in the Novomoskovsk region. Three rockets destroyed the oil depot. There's a pretty big fire there. Rescuers put out the fire. Three people were injured. They have burns. Everyone is in the hospital,” he wrote, attaching a photo of the fire.
On June 16, a Russian airstrike on Lisichansk killed four people. According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (GSChS), the Russian army fired on the building in which people were hiding.
Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia launched an airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol on March 9. The strike killed three civilians, including a small child. Another 17 people, including women in labor, children and hospital staff, were injured. Four hours before the shelling of the maternity hospital, during a briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the nationalists had vacated the maternity hospital in Mariupol to make it their military base. According to her, the national battalions deliberately expelled all the personnel, including women and children, from the maternity hospital in order to completely convert it into firing positions. Yevgeniy Maloletka, the author of photographs of a maternity hospital bombed by the Russian army in Mariupol, told The Insider that, contrary to the statements of the Russian Foreign Ministry, there were ordinary patients in the hospital, and not a battalion of militants.
