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Day 1522. Russia struck the Dnieper twice in a row - a residential building was destroyed and there were casualties. Ukrainian drones attacked Yekaterinburg for the first time
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Ukraine
Russia launched two strikes on the Dnieper - on the same residential area
The head of the regional administration, Alexander Ganzha, announced the first attack on the Dnepropetrovsk region at about three o'clock in the morning local time. According to him, after this, fires started in several impact areas. Soon Ganzha clarified that a four-story residential building was damaged - as it turned out later, as a result of the attack, part of the building collapsed, leaving people under the rubble. Rescuers recovered the bodies of four people from the rubble. According to Ganja, another 27 people were injured, including two children: a nine-year-old boy who was sent for outpatient treatment and a 17-year-old girl who was hospitalized in a moderate condition.
At about 11 a.m., Russian troops struck the Dnieper again. Ganja said the attack hit the same residential area that was attacked at night. The second strike killed another person and damaged another residence. In total, according to the administration, after two strikes in the city there were 46 wounded, five of them children. 23 people were hospitalized, at least two women are in serious condition.
At night, Russia also attacked other regions of Ukraine - in total, eight regions came under attack, according to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Igor Klimenko. In Nizhyn, Chernihiv region, two people died. In the Kharkov region, four local residents were injured, including a one-and-a-half-year-old child.
Vladimir Zelensky wrote in the morning after the first attack on the Dnieper: “The Russians’ tactics remain unchanged - attack drones, cruise missiles and a significant part of ballistics. Most of the targets are ordinary infrastructure in cities.”
Russia
Ukrainian drones attacked the Sverdlovsk region for the first time and hit a residential high-rise
In Yekaterinburg, a multi-storey residential building on Khokhryakova Street in the city center was damaged as a result of an attack by Ukrainian drones. The attack was reported by the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Denis Pasler. According to him , nine people sought medical help, but there were no deaths. One victim was hospitalized.
According to E1.ru, the main damage affected the 25–30 floors of a high-rise building (this is the Trinity residential complex). According to Pasler, 44 apartments were damaged and 81 people were evacuated from the building. There is no threat of building collapse.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said that 127 Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed over Russian regions during the night. Restrictions were introduced at the airports of Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Perm, Volgograd, Krasnodar and a number of other regions in central and southern Russia.
E1.ru notes that this is the first drone attack in the Sverdlovsk region. The Russian presidential envoy to the Ural Federal District (and a former war veteran who asked Putin to run for a fifth term) Artem Zhoga said that Yekaterinburg “was attacked by the criminal Kiev regime.” “This war crime once again shows: the enemy is incapable of achieving success on the battlefield, and therefore can only carry out vile attacks on civilian targets. The Urals are now within reach, be vigilant,” wrote Zhoga.
Blogger Michael Naki notes that the target of the Ukrainian drones could be the Vector defense enterprise of the Almaz-Antey concern. “Once again, thanks to Yandex, which made searching for military targets to understand where it could fly 1000 times easier by blurring all military targets,” he wrote.
War in photographs. House destroyed by Russian strike in Dnieper
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Anna (Bulgaria) . On February 24, 2022, our family was planning a big, beautiful anniversary. But Putin’s speech, which I saw almost from the very beginning, covered me with such horror that all the joys crumbled into dust, as if by the wave of an evil wizard’s wand. The war ruined my whole life: my children left Russia to see them, my husband and I (no longer young people) had to move to another country. Thank God, there is an online job that allows me to somehow make ends meet here.
How, by what right, was it possible to break the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, sending some to death, and depriving others of the familiar world of their home, relatives and friends, an elementary sense of tomorrow? We are very lucky with our friends: almost no one supports the war, everyone worries and lives in hope. For what? For five years, everything has only gotten worse, and now these obscurantists are in power - human suffering is not enough for them! — they set out to finally cancel the future and lock the country in a stuffy sarcophagus of isolation. I’m trying not to lose heart completely, but it doesn’t seem to be working out very well...