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Three killed, six injured as Russian drones strike Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions

Russian FPV drone attacks on Sunday, October 4, killed three people and injured six across Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.

Foto: Ukrainska Pravda (EN)

Russian attacks on Sunday, October 4, killed three people and injured six across Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, according to regional military administration officials.

Zaporizhzhia oblast

Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the Zaporizhzhia Oblast Military Administration, said Russian FPV drones killed two people and injured two others in the Zaporizhzhia district. In Kushuhum, a drone struck a gardening association, killing a 79-year-old man and injuring a 77-year-old woman; a dacha was damaged. In Novostepnianske, a Russian FPV drone hit a KAMAZ lorry on the road, killing the driver and injuring another man. The vehicle was destroyed and dry vegetation caught fire, though firefighters brought the blaze under control.

Dnipropetrovsk oblast

Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, reported one person killed and four injured in the region on Sunday. In Dnipro, Russian forces attacked a telecommunications company. In the Nikopol district, strikes hit the city of Nikopol along with the Marhanets, Pokrovske and Chervonohryhorivka communities, damaging an apartment building, a house, shops, an office building, a petrol station, a company and a car. One person died, a 64-year-old man was hospitalised in moderate condition, and two men aged 28 and 61 are receiving outpatient treatment. In Pavlohrad, a house was damaged and a 45-year-old man was injured but declined hospitalisation. In the Synelnykove district, strikes on several communities damaged an apartment building and cars.

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