Morning strike on the city
On the morning of December 1, Russia carried out a missile strike on Dnipro. According to the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration (OVA), Vladyslav Haivanenko, there are dead and injured. The strike hit a service station and several enterprises, with damage sustained at the site.
Emergency response to the attack is underway: rescuers, medical teams, law enforcement and other services are involved.
Initial casualty report
As of 11:45 there were three dead and eight wounded.
The Air Forces clarified that before the strike, at 10:10, a warning was issued about the possible use of ballistic missiles from the area of Russia's Taganrog.
Updated information on the aftermath
At 12:20
The number of wounded rose to 15. Three were receiving outpatient treatment, the rest were in hospitals. Six of the wounded were in serious condition.
At 12:50
There were now four dead and 22 wounded.
At 13:40
Rescuers reported 27 wounded. Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov said Russia struck with a ballistic missile almost in the city center. Four apartment buildings were damaged — over 200 windows were blown out.
Also destroyed were a school building, a charity organization's warehouse and a number of non-residential premises. More than fifty utility workers and heavy machinery are working at the site: loaders, tow trucks, dump trucks.
A day of mourning declared in Dnipro
Mayor Borys Filatov signed an order declaring December 2 a day of mourning for the victims.
At 14:25
Haivanenko stated that the number of those affected had risen to 40 people. Most of them are in hospitals. Eleven wounded are in serious condition. The OVA clarified that search-and-rescue operations have been completed.
