Ukraine stated on Friday (August 29, 2025) Russian in a single day strikes had killed two folks in Dnipropetrovsk, days after Kyiv admitted for the primary time that Moscow’s Army was advancing into the region.
“Unfortunately, two people died — a man and a woman. Sincere condolences to the relatives,” Sergiy Lysak, the pinnacle of the regional army administration, wrote on Telegram.
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Dnipropetrovsk, a central administrative space, had been largely spared from intense preventing.
But Kyiv acknowledged on Tuesday that Russian troops had entered the region, following statements to the identical impact by Moscow since final month.
Mr. Lysak stated the drone strike on the Synelnyky district additionally wounded a 50-year-old girl.
A separate assault on town of Dnipro wounded two folks, together with a 46-year-old man who was in a “serious condition”, he stated.
Dnipropetrovsk just isn’t one of many 5 Ukrainian areas — Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea — that Moscow has publicly claimed as Russian territory.
But Russia has claimed to have captured some settlements there since July.
