Key facts
- An 11-year-old boy was killed in a Russian drone attack in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on Oct. 10.
- Five people, including two children, were injured in the attacks.
- The boy was killed when a munition was dropped from a drone on the Pokrovske community.
- Attacks damaged residential buildings, a gas station, and an ambulance in Nikopol district.
- Governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported over 30 Russian attacks on the oblast that day.
An 11-year-old boy was killed and five other people were injured, including two children, in Russian drone and missile attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on October 10, regional authorities reported.
The boy was killed when Russian forces dropped a munition from a drone on the Pokrovske community in Nikopol district, according to regional officials. A 10-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy were among the injured and have been hospitalized. A 47-year-old man and two women, aged 49 and 61, were also injured.
Governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported that Russian forces attacked Dnipropetrovsk Oblast more than 30 times throughout the day with drones and artillery. In Nikopol district, the attacks damaged residential buildings, a gas station, and an ambulance. Russian strikes also hit the Zelenodolsk community in Kryvyi Rih district, damaging private homes and infrastructure. In the Mykolaiv community of Dnipro district, vehicles and agricultural machinery were damaged.
Nikopol, located across the Dnipro River from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, has faced frequent Russian artillery and drone attacks throughout the full-scale invasion.
The latest attacks in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast follow several days of deadly Russian strikes across Ukraine, hitting residential buildings and critical civilian infrastructure. In Zaporizhzhia, Russian strikes killed one person on October 8 and another on October 9, before guided aerial bombs struck a five-story apartment building on October 10, killing at least 20 people, including three children, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service. Russian attacks on Kyiv's energy infrastructure on October 8 also caused widespread power outages, disrupting public transportation and water supplies across the capital, killing four people and injuring at least 19.