Russian forces attack Dnipro with Shahed UAVs, causing damage and fires.
Soldiers from Air Command Skhid (East) shot down 12 Russian drones over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the night of 4-5 May. The crashing wreckage has damaged infrastructure facilities and a high-rise building in the city of Dnipro and caused fires.
Source : Serhii Lysak, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration
Details : Lysak added that one drone had been shot down in the Kryvyi Rih district, another in the Nikopol district, and ten more in the Dnipro district.
Quote : "Infrastructure facilities have been damaged in Dnipro due to falling wreckage and strikes. Several fires broke out. A high-rise building has also been damaged.
Two cars have been severely damaged in Slobozhanske hromada, and a store has also been affected." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]
Background : On the night of 4-5 May, explosions were heard in the city of Dnipro. Ukrainian authorities had previously issued an air-raid warning in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
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