Four dead and 34 injured in Russian air strike on Ukraine’s Dnipro

Four people were killed and another 34 injured in a Russian air strike on the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine on Wednesday morning, according to Dnipropetrovsk Governor Serhiy Lysak.

Russian forces attacked the city with both missiles and drones, Lysak said, adding that a 14-year-old girl was among the 34 injured. A third of the injured had to be hospitalized and two others were in critical condition.

Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne said that at least ten explosions were heard in the city. The targets of the attacks included the Appolo shopping center and a gas station.

Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov said the attack shattered windows in two schools and three kindergartens, and that a shrapnel fragment hit the intensive care unit of a local children’s hospital. He declared Thursday a day of mourning for the victims of the attack.

The attack came less than a week after Russian forces fired a missile at a residential building in Dnipro on Friday evening, killing one person and wounding 12 others. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said The attack showed that only a sufficient quantity and quality of air defense systems and the determination of the world could stop Russian terror.