Russian strikes on regions of Ukraine have caused destruction and injured civilians
On the night of 17 April, Russian troops attacked critical infrastructure in Chernihiv. Fires broke out at the sites of the strikes. Chernihivoblenergo reported damage to an energy facility in the Chernihiv district, leaving around 6,000 customers in the city without power.
In Dnipro, the attack caused a fire and damaged a transport company. Damage to urban infrastructure, including a trolleybus, was also recorded. One 29-year-old man was injured and will receive outpatient treatment.
In total, Russian forces attacked Dnipro and the Nikopol and Dniprovskyi districts more than 20 times, using drones, artillery and missiles. In Dnipro, a transport company, a high-rise building and commercial premises were damaged. In the Novooleksandrivka community, a secondary school, a private house and a car were damaged. Two men were injured. In the Nikopol, Marganetsk, Myrivka, Chervonohryhorivka and Pokrovsk communities, infrastructure facilities, an agricultural enterprise, residential buildings and farm buildings were damaged.
In the Zaporizhzhia region, 726 strikes were recorded across 39 settlements over the past 24 hours. Three people were killed and a further 13 were injured. There were 121 reports of damage to infrastructure, homes and vehicles.
In the Kherson region, Russian troops attacked 31 settlements over the past 24 hours using drones, artillery and aircraft. Nine people were injured. Multi-storey and private houses, an administrative building, a municipal utility, a gas pipeline, a petrol station, agricultural machinery and private cars were damaged.
On the morning of 17 April, a drone attacked a minibus in the Dniprovskyi district of Kherson. According to preliminary reports, the driver and passengers were unharmed. At around 06:30 in the suburbs of Kherson, explosives were dropped from a drone onto a cyclist. The 70-year-old man suffered blast injuries and shrapnel wounds to his arms and legs; he is currently under medical supervision.
In the Sumy region, late in the evening of 16 April, a drone struck a fire and rescue unit. The building sustained damage; personnel were in shelter, and there were no casualties.
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