Russian missile strikes kill, injure multiple people in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – local authorities

Russian missile strikes killed and injured multiple people in the Kamianske District of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the morning of July 1, 2025, according to Serhii Lysak, head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration.

Later, Lysak specified that as a result of a missile strike, there was destruction of infrastructure and shops. Rescuers have extinguished the fire.

Following a UAV attack in the Bohdanivka hromadaі of the Pavlohrad District, a farm was damaged. Six units of agricultural machinery were damaged, and 40 domestic animals were killed.

Russia also struck the Malomykhailivka hromada in the Synelnykove District with an FPV drone, damaging a restaurant.

Throughout the day, the Nikopol District also suffered from strikes, which affected the district center and the Marhanets, Pokrovske, and Myrove hromadas. A five-story building, a private house, an agricultural enterprise, a combine harvester, a moped, and a power line were damaged.

The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast regularly suffers from Russian attacks. 

A 59-year-old man was killed and four more were injured in the Nikopol and Samar Districts in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on June 19. An 11-year-old boy was among the five injured. 

Lysak reported then that one of the injured, a 59-year-old man, is in a critical condition. The other hospitalised patients are in a moderate condition.

On June 9, according to Lysak, the Russian military killed a 58-year-old man resident in the city of Nikopol, dropping an explosive device on the city from a drone.

On June 4, Russian forces struck a grocery shop in Nikopol and injured four people in an enemy FPV drone attack.

Details: Medics hospitalized two civilians, a 40-year-old woman and a 40-year-old man, both in serious condition. Two other local residents, both aged 34, are receiving outpatient treatment.

In FPV drone and artillery attacks on the Nikopol and Synelnykove Districts on May 15, Russian armed forces killed a woman, according to Serhii Lysak.

Russian forces attacked in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on 15 May, killing a woman. Russians also damaged residential buildings.

Russian strikes on the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast killed a man and injured three more people on April 5. Lysak reported that in the afternoon, Russian forces dropped a guided aerial bomb on the Novopavlivka hromada in the Synelnykove District. The bomb killed a 54-year-old man and sparked two fires.

Local authorities also reported that Russian drone attacks on the town of Marhanets in the Nikopol district. two men aged 39 and 68, and a 75-year-old woman that day.

On June 24, 2025, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the Dutch parliament that Russia has used 28,743 Shahed drones against Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war on 24 February 2022.

Previously, specialists of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) examined a Shahed-136 drone of the new MS series that Ukrainian Defence Forces shot down in the Sumy region in June and found components of American and Iranian production.

According to the DIU press center, drone disassembly revealed that the UAV carries an infrared camera and a high-speed American minicomputer, Nvidia Jetson Orin, designed for AI and video processing. DIU specialists previously found this component in the Russian V2U drone. The system can autonomously search for and strike targets.

The American module enables the drone to receive information from the camera and compare the image with downloaded models for automatic targeting or target selection. This gives the Shahed a new capability to recognize and hit predetermined objects.

DIU reported that the Shahed-136 (Geran 2) drone in the MS series also features an improved eight-channel Iranian jamming-resistant Nasir satellite navigation system. The new Shahed also carries a radio modem and a subsystem for transmitting video, telemetry, or group control commands.

Ukrainian officials previously reported that Russian forces have begun deploying a new reconnaissance drone ahead of Shahed attacks. The new UAV visually resembles the Shahed itself, and the Russian military uses it to scout the routes of attacking drones and detect mobile air defense fire groups.