Russian strike on petrol station in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast kills three, including 8-year-old child

Russian forces killed three people, including an eight-year-old child, in their strike on a petrol station in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the afternoon of 3 August, Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration and Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, reported.

“Three people were killed as a result of the enemy attack on the Shyroke “hromada”, a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements, in the Kryvyi Rih District,” Hanzha wrote. 

The State Emergency Service reported that an emergency responder and his underage son are among those killed.

A further six people were injured.

“All have been hospitalised. A 49-year-old man is in a serious condition. Men aged 53, 46 and 20 and women aged 51 and 60 are in a moderate condition,” the statement reads. 

Earlier on 3 August, three people were injured in a Russian drone attack on a petrol station in Zaporizhzhia.

Previously, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) on 14 July stated in its monthly report that at least 293 civilians were killed in Russian strikes in June, 2026. It is the highest monthly death toll since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, UN human rights experts have said.

Infographics by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine

“The figures show an alarming escalatory trend with mounting civilian toll, driven by the intensifying use of powerful weapons that are particularly deadly when used in densely populated urban areas,” said Danielle Bell, who heads HRMMU. “This trend should serve as a warning that the risks facing civilians are not only persisting but growing in both scale and complexity.”

HRMMU also reported that a total of 1,396 civilians were killed and 7,978 were injured over the first six months of this year, up 37% from the same period in 2025 and up 114% compared with the first half of 2024.

Infographics by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine

Since 24 February 2022, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has verified that at least 16,431 civilians have been killed, including 803 children, and 48,613 civilians have been injured, including 2,960 children.

Ukrainian experts point out that countries, including China, the United States of America, North Korea, Hungary, Slovakia, Iran, and Brazil, assist Moscow in killing Ukrainians in its war against Ukraine by funding the Russian budget through trade.

Human rights organisations and Ukrainian authorities emphasise that structural economic pressure remains a key tool to halt such atrocities. They urge every nation and individual government worldwide to strictly enforce global sanctions, close existing regulatory loopholes, and completely sever remaining commercial and technological ties with the Russian Federation. Civil society groups stress that any continued cooperation by foreign businesses directly contributes to the resources Moscow uses to sustain its ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

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