Russian Missile Strike Kills Three

Russian long-range cruise missiles have killed three people in Ukraine’s central city of Dnipro.

About 15 people were injured when the missile hit a space rocket plant and a nearby residential building.

Dnipro Mayor, Borys Filatov said another two died when dozens of Russian rockets were fired at Nikopol, south of Dnipro.

Ground Offensive
Report says that as Russia’s ground offensive in the east has slowed down, there has been an increase in the number of attacks from the air often hitting city centres.

Meanwhile Russian Defence Minister, Sergei Shoigu has ordered his forces to step up their operations in Ukraine, to prevent Ukrainian artillery and missile strikes on Russian-controlled areas.

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Mr. Borys urged civilians to leave the city “There is no room for women, children, and the elderly, and those who can and want to leave leave,

“They destroyed the airport several times with missiles, hit all the outskirts of the city, shot at the bridge right in the centre, bombed the oil depot and service station, but citizens stubbornly continued to ignore the air raid sirens,” he complained.

“After the tragedies of Kremenchuk and Vinnytsia, I really hoped that at least someone would come to their senses,” he added.

Dnipro has taken in many Ukrainians fleeing the fighting further east in the Donbas region, where Russia has concentrated its ground forces.

A Russian cruise missile strike killed at least 23 people and wounded dozens on Thursday in Vinnytsia, report says.

The city lies southwest of Kyiv, even further from the Donbas front line than Dnipro.

The Ukrainian military says those missiles were fired by submarines in the Black Sea. Those that struck Dnipro, they said, came from bombers flying over the Caspian Sea.

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