Photo author, State Emergency Service of Dnipropetrovsk region
Photo caption Emergency services work at the sites of Russian strikes in Dnipropetrovsk region
April 19, 2024
On the night of April 19, Russia launched a combined strike with missiles of various types and unmanned aerial vehicles. The Dnipropetrovsk region and the south of Ukraine came under attack.
According to preliminary information, eight people were killed, including two children, and 29 were injured, the State Emergency Service reported.
The Russians attacked with 36 means — 22 missiles of various types and 14 drones, the Air Force of Ukraine said. Of them, 29 managed to destroy -15 missiles and 14 drones.
The Ukrainian military also announced the downing of a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber, a carrier of Kh-22 cruise missiles, which the Russian military uses to attack Ukrainian cities.
The commander of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Mykola Oleschuk, noted that it was the anti-aircraft missile units of the Air Force in cooperation with the GUR that destroyed such a strategic bomber for the first time.
Also, during the attack, the Ukrainian military destroyed two Russian X-22 missiles for the first time. How it happened and where – is not specified.
Dnipro and region
Author of the photo, Serhiy Lysak
Photo caption In Dnipro, infrastructure facilities and a residential building in the city center were damaged
Dnipropetrovsk region suffered the most during the attack.
A residential high-rise building was hit in Dnipro – a fire broke out there, which the firefighters have already extinguished, reported the head of OVA, Serhiy Lysak.
“There may be people under the rubble,” he wrote in a telegram.
Later, Lysak clarified that, in addition to the residential building, two infrastructure objects were damaged.
Currently, at least two dead and 16 wounded are known in Dnipro.
Half of them are in the hospital. All are in a state of moderate severity. People have shrapnel injuries, fractures, hematomas, cut wounds.
Author of the photo, Serhii Lysak
Mayor of Dnipro Borys Filatov noted that the hit was in the center. “The very center of the city. Civilians,” he wrote on Facebook.
He later said that the residential building was hit by an X-22 missile, a weapon designed to destroy aircraft carriers.
“This missile has an inertial guidance system and selects a large object in the open ocean. When a squadron of warships goes, it looks for the largest target – that is, an aircraft carrier,” the mayor of the city explained.
He added that the last time an X-22 hit a huge building on Naberezhnaya Pemiga, 118 in Dnipro, as well as the “Amstor” shopping center in Kremenchuk.
“In any case, using such missiles to attack cities and residential buildings is a deliberate war crime,” Filatov added.
According to him, it is a miracle that the number of victims is not measured in dozens, as during the attack on a residential building in January 2023, when 46 people died in the Dnipro.
Photo author, State Emergency Service of Dnipropetrovsk region
After the attack, the railway station in Dnipro was temporarily suspended.
Ukrzaliznytsia reported that railway facilities were damaged due to the impact. There are injured among the railway workers.
The station has already resumed operations, but there are significant train delays.
Author of the photo, Serhiy Lysak
Photo caption, Dnipro
Several settlements of the region were also affected, in particular, one of the enterprises was damaged in Pavlohrad.
In Kryvyi Rih, an infrastructure object was hit, a fire broke out there. said Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the city’s defense council.
According to him, three victims are currently known: men aged 43 and 53 and a woman aged 58.
The Russians also struck Nikopol region. Artillery shelled Nikopol itself, and at night the Marganets community, where two private houses were damaged.
Author of the photo, Ihor Klymenko
Three dozen private houses were damaged in the Synelniky district. Four – destroyed
Six people died there, including two children: a 14-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy.
Another six people were injured, Serhii Lysak said.
“The number of victims will increase. The analysis of the rubble of damaged buildings continues,” added the Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko.
Author of the photo, Serhiy Lysak
Caption to the photo, Sinelnykivskyi district (Dnipropetrovsk region)
Odesa
Odesa was also under attack by strike drones and missiles, Oleg Kiper, the head of the OVA, said.
He noted that the Russians targeted critical infrastructure in the region.
“Fortunately, people were not injured. Law enforcement officers are recording the consequences of yet another crime committed by the Russians,” the official said.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyi, after Russia’s attack on the Dnipro and the region, called on partners to provide Ukraine with more air defense equipment.
“Every state that provides air defense systems to Ukraine, every leader who helps to convince partners that air defense should now not be in warehouses, but in real cities and communities that are under terrorist attacks, everyone who supports our defense are lifesavers. We must defeat Russian terror,” the president said.
He emphasized that “Russia must be responsible for its terror, and every missile, every “shaheed” must go astray.”
