Russian forces shell Nikopol district with artillery, killing elderly man

Russian forces shell Nikopol district with artillery, killing elderly man

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Russian troops shelled the Pokrovske community in the Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk region, killing a 72-year-old man.

Serhii Lysak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, announced this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.

"A man was killed in enemy artillery shelling of the Pokrovske community in the Nikopol district. A shell struck a private residential plot," the statement reads.

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Russian forces launched missile strikes overnight on the Synelnykove and Pavlohrad districts in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Illustrative photo: Ukraine's State Emergency Service 

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