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UAV event in Dnipropetrovsk, Nikopol' area, Ukraine on Sun 9th August 2026

9th August 2026

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One killed and five injured in Russian attacks on Nikopol district.

One person was killed and five others were injured in Russian attacks on 9 August in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast's Nikopol district.

Source: Oleksandr Hanzha, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration

Quote: "One person has been killed and five others have been injured. The enemy has attacked four districts of the region nearly 40 times using drones, artillery and aerial bombs."

Details: In Nikopol district, Russian forces struck the city of Nikopol and the Marhanets and Pokrovske hromadas. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.] Houses, a five-storey building, an outbuilding, a garage, a car and a bus were damaged.

One person was killed and five others were injured. A man, 36, was hospitalised in a moderate condition.

In the Synelnykove district, Russian forces struck Synelnykove and the Mykolaiv and Vasylkiv hromadas. Around a dozen houses and cars were damaged.

Infrastructure was damaged in the Zelenodolsk hromada, Kryvyi Rih district.

In Pavlohrad, a warehouse building on the premises of a food company caught fire. A fire also broke out in the Verbkivska hromada.

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