Russian shelling of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast kills a child, injures three adults
Russians killed a 16-year-old child and injured three other people in the city of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The Russian Armed Forces fired nearly a dozen shells at the city.
According to Serhii Lysak, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, a boy was killed due to Russian artillery shelling in Nikopol. Rescue workers retrieved his body from under the rubble of a damaged building.
“Three people were injured, with shrapnel wounds. A 79-year-old man was taken to hospital in a serious but stable condition,” Lysak reported.
Two other people who were injured – a 74-year-old man and a 66-year-old woman – received medical assistance and refused to be taken to hospital.
For context, Russians also killed one person and injured five more in a bombardment with artillery on the city of Nikopol on August 29, 2024.
According to Lysak, a woman, 42, was killed and women aged 19 and 59, along with men aged 30, 60, and 74 were injured. The official noted that Russian forces had damaged a shopping centre, high-rise buildings, outbuildings, cars, and a gas pipeline in the city.
The UN pointed out that a large-scale coordinated attack launched by the Russian Armed Forces across Ukraine on July 8, 2024, killed at least 43 civilians, including 5 children, and injured 147, including 7 children, in Kyiv City, Dnipro City, Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) and Kyiv region.
One missile in the 8 July attack also struck a hospital complex in Kyiv city, destroying the toxicology department of the Okhmatdyt National Children’s Hospital and significantly damaging the Center for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
In June and July, the most intensive offensive military operations by the Russian Armed Forces shifted from the northern Kharkiv region to the Donetsk region, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine noted. As a result, verified civilian casualties in the Donetsk region increased from 125 civilians killed or injured in May to 224 in June and 269 in July 2024.
The vast majority of civilian casualties (90%) and damage to educational and health facilities (86%) continued to occur in Government-controlled territory.
As for now, it is impossible to determine the exact number of all casualties, as Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and the representatives of the ICC have no access to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
