Dnipro strikes | |
---|---|
Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure | |
Location | Dnipro, Ukraine |
Date | 11 March 2022 – present (2 years, 8 months, 1 week and 5 days) |
Attack type | Missile strikes |
Deaths | 70+ (Total) 1 (11 March attack) 2 (28 June attack) 4 (15 July attack) 3 (29 September attack) 3 (10 October attack) 2, including a pregnant woman (25 October 2022) 1 (26 November 2022 attack) 46 and 11 people reported missing (14 January 2023) [1] 2 (28 April 2023) [2] 4 (26 May 2023) [3] 7 (29 December 2023) [4] 2 (23 February 2024) [5] 3 (19 April 2024) [6] 2 (15 May 2024) [7] 3 (28 June 2024) [8] 7 (3 July 2024) [9] 1 (8 July 2024) [10] 1 (2 September 2024) [11] 5 (25 October 2024) [12] |
Injured | 300+ (Total) 7 (28 June attack) 16 (15 July attack) 14 (17 November attack) 13 (26 November 2022 attack) 80 (14 January 2023) [1] 1 (8 May 2023) [13] 8 (22 May 2023) [14] 30 (26 May 2023) [15] 11 (24 June 2023) [16] 9 (28 July 2023) [17] 2 (15 August 2023) [18] 10 (24 August 2023) [19] 28 (29 December 2023) [20] [21] 8 (23 February 2024) [22] 4 (25 February 2024) [23] 18 (2 April 2024) [24] 13 (14 April 2024) [nb 1] 24 (19 April 2024) [6] 7 (4 June 2024) [26] 13 (28 June 2024) [27] 7 (1 July 2024) [28] 53 (3 July 2024) [29] 12 (8 July 2024) [10] 6 (2 September 2024) [11] 21 (25 October 2024) [12] 1 (30 October 2024) [30] 1 (17 November 2024) [31] 3 (21 November 2024) [32] |
Perpetrators | Russian Armed Forces |
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces have launched several missile attacks over the city of Dnipro in Ukraine. These have led to dozens of fatalities and over a hundred injuries among the civilian population.
Dnipro was first hit during the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 11 March 2022. Three missiles hit the city and killed one person, striking close to an apartment building and a kindergarten. [33] On 15 March, the Dnipro International Airport was heavily damaged by Russian missiles. [34] This destroyed the runaway of the airport. [35] On 30 March, Russian forces struck an oil terminal in Dnipro, destroying it. There were no casualties. [36]
Another attack on the Dnipro airport on 10 April completely destroyed the airport and the infrastructure nearby. [37] One Ukrainian Su-25 was destroyed in the ground inside its hangar, one Ukrainian technician was wounded as well. [38]
On 28 June, Russian forces fired six 3M-14E Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea to Dnipro at around 5:30 local time. One of them hit an Avtodiesel car repair shop, killing a man and a woman. Other seven people, including a six-year-old boy, were injured. Fragments of the Kalibr missile were found afterwards. [39]
An attack on Dnipro proper was carried out by Russian armed forces [40] on 15 July 2022. As a result, four people died, 16 were injured. [41] The main target was the largest space plant of Ukraine located within the city. [42] [43]
The city was shelled from Tu-95 aircraft from the northern part of the Caspian Sea with X-101 missiles. [44] According to preliminary data, a total of 8 rockets were fired. Four missiles were shot down by the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces. [45] Each missile costs 13 million dollars [46] (8 missiles cost Russia more than 100 million dollars). [47]
Part of the rockets hit the "Pivdenmash" enterprise. [48] As a result of the impact, the city's water supply was damaged, and part of the city's residents were left without water supply. [48] More than ten cars were damaged, doors and windows were destroyed in residential buildings. [49]
Four people were killed. [41] One of the victims is a city bus driver. [40] On the first day, 15 wounded were reported, and the next day their number increased to 16. [40]
On the morning of 29 September 2022 missiles hit residential areas in Dnipro, and three people were killed. [50] The central bus station was also hit. [51]
Dnipro was also hit during the 10 October 2022 Russian missile strikes on critical infrastructure. [52] It was hit by at least five missiles. [53] During the attack that took place during morning rush hour three civilians were killed. [53]
On 18 October 2022 Russian missile strikes targeted the energy infrastructure of Dnipro. [54] One man was injured and a large-scale fire broke out at an energy infrastructure facility that was severely damaged. [55] Also more than three dozen residential buildings were damaged, including schools and kindergartens. [55]
On 25 October 2022 two people were killed, including a pregnant woman, and four injured due to a fire at a petrol station in Dnipro after fragments of a Russian missile had hit it. [56]
In the early hours of 9 November 2022 Russian forces deployed kamikaze drones in an attack hitting a logistics business and causing a large fire. [57] Four employees sustained injuries, three severe. [57] Anti-aircraft defence systems (reportedly) destroyed five loitering munitions. [57]
Around 08:30 [58] in the morning of 15 November, while people where commuting to work, Dnipro was hit by a strike on (according to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal) the PA Pivdenmash missile plant. [59] Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Valentyn Reznichenko stated that an industrial company, houses, trolleybuses and a "lively street" were damaged. [60] Reznichenko claimed that 23 people were injured, including a teenager. [60] [59] Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov claimed a city hall employee was wounded in the attack while out helping elderly women. [59]
On 26 November 2022, around noon, a Russian missile strike on Dnipro injured 13 people and partially destroyed seven private houses in Dnipro's Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District. [61] Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov reported that city communications and infrastructure were not damaged. [62] Governor Valentyn Reznichenko stated that due to the attack one woman was hospitalised in critical condition. [63] The following day Reznichenko reported that a man was found dead under the rubble. [64]
A Russian nightly multiple missile strike destroyed an enterprise 29 November 2022. [65] No (human) casualties were reported. [65]
On 14 January a multi-storey residential building in Dnipro was hit by a Russian attack. [66] [67] The explosion was heard at approximately 3:41 p.m. [68] A local air alert had begun at 2:00 p.m. [68] On 19 January, 46 people are known to be killed and 80 to be injured. 11 people remain missing. [1] [69] 39 people were rescued. [70]
On 9 March Dnipro was also hit during a nationwide Russian missile strike. [71] [72] According to the Dnipro City Council dozens of buildings were damaged by blast waves and in more than 120 apartments windows were broken. [71] Fragments of a rocket were scattered almost all over the terrain of yacht club Sich. [71] No casualties were reported. [71]
During a night attack on 27–28 March a Russian drone hit a private business in Dnipro and caused a large-scale fire. [73] No casualties were reported. [73] According to Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak two other Russian drones were shot down over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. [73]
On 28 April a mother and her three-year-old daughter were killed in their home in a rural suburb of Dnipro. [2] According to Governor Lysak seven Russian missiles had targeted the city. [74] Local police told neighbours (of the victims) that fragments of one of them, shot down by air defences, appeared to have fallen on the house. [74]
On 3 May, in the night, a drone hit an administrative building in Dnipro. [75] According to Governor Lysak it was set on fire, although that was put out by morning. [75] Lysak also reported that the attack had not lead to casualties. [76] Ukrainian Air Defence Forces reported that they had shot down 7 missiles flying over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and that this one drone had (still) hit its target. [76]
In the evening of 8 May a 32-year-old woman was wounded and hospitalised when debris from Russian missiles fell on a four-storey building in Dnipro. [13] A missile warhead was found on the third floor of the building. [13] All eight missiles launched by Russian forces on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were downed by Ukrainian Air Defence Forces. [13]
During the night of 21–22 May the premises of a private firm were hit by a Russian missile strike; eight people were injured (three of them hospitalised) and three buildings were damaged as a result. [14] 20 pieces of equipment of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine were destroyed. [14] Ukraine's air defence forces reported that they had shot down 15 Russian drones and four cruise missiles during the attack on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. [14]
On 26 May a Russian missile strike hit an outpatient clinic and a veterinarian clinic, killing 4 people [3] and injuring 30 (three severely wounded). [15] The missile attack hit a three-storey building within a medical institution that was partially destroyed and caught fire. [15] The fire then also engulfed a neighbouring building. [15] Among the injured were a baby and a child, born in 2020 and 2017 respectively. [77] 27 May was declared a day of mourning for those who died as a result of the attack. [77]
During the night of 3–4 June a Russian missiles struck a residential area killing a two-year-old girl and injuring another 22 people, including five children. [78] The attack destroyed or damaged several buildings in Pidhorodne, which lies on the outskirts of Dnipro city. [78] [nb 2] According to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces one Iskander-K missile had hit a two-story apartment building. [79] (According to local police) 10 private houses, cars, shops and gas pipelines were destroyed after a fire broke out as a result of the explosion. [80] The rescue operation was completed at 3:00 AM. [80]
In the nighttime of 24 June 11 people, including three children, were injured in a missile attack that destroyed four homes in a residential area. [16] [81] The blast wave damaged more than 20 buildings. [81]
At around 20.30 hour on 28 July 2023 a Russian missiles attack (locals heard two explosions) hit a high-rise building in the centre of Dnipro. [17] [82] A new residential complex, where many apartments were still uninhabited, was damaged. [17] An office of the Security Service of Ukraine was also hit, but was reported to have been not in use for a while. [17] [nb 3] Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov claimed that Russian Iskander missals had hit the buildings. [83] Nine injured were reported and no deaths have been reported. [17] [84] On 29 July 2023 Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed "On the evening of July 28, the Russian Armed Forces targeted the Ukrainian armed forces' command center in the city of Dnipro with high-precision weapons. The target was hit." [85] [nb 4]
At 4:20 hour on 15 August 2023 one of the industrial facilities in Dnipro was hit, 2 wounded were reported. [18] At around the same time a swimming pool was also hit, with no casualties reported. [87] Later that day Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed that these attacks had been a "concentrated blow to key enterprises in the military industry of the Kyiv regime." [88] According to him, the goal of the strikes was achieved. [88]
At around 2:30 hour on 24 August 2023 (Ukrainian independence day) multiple rockets hit Dnipro's Central Bus Station . [19] [89] [90] Ten people were injured, six were hospitalised with minor injuries. [19] 15 shops near the station were destroyed or damaged. [19] [89] Besides the bus station 10 other buildings were also damaged including two residential buildings, a bank, a petrol station, a hotel, premises belonging to an agricultural company, a furniture manufacturer and an administrative building. [89] Additionally three buses and several cars, a trolleybus network line, as well as water and gas pipelines, were damaged. [89] Later that day Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed that the previous night "a multiple-launch strike by seaborne and ground-based long-range precision weapons against a Ukrainian military command center" had destroyed this target. [91] [nb 5]
On 23 September Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak reported that the previous night wreckage from a shot down Russian drone had damaged "a critical infrastructure facility" in Dnipro. [92]
On 3 October Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak reported that falling debris, of the 13 UAVs and a cruise missile that had been shot down over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, had caused a fire at a Dnipro private firm that was quickly doused. [93] In a later update Lysak stated that a school, a kindergarten, a petrol station and three apartment buildings in Dnipro were damaged by "fragments of downed Russian junk"; in addition to a warehouse being destroyed by fire. [94]
On 29 December 2023, Russia launched at least 122 cruise and ballistic missiles and 36 drones which struck multiple cities (Kyiv, Odesa, Kharkiv and Lviv and) including Dnipro, in what was one of the largest aerial attacks on Ukraine so far. [20] Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak reported that 6 people died and 28 people were injured in the attack. [20] [21] Missiles struck a shopping centre, a maternity hospital a house and a six-storey residential building. [20] [95] Local online newspaper Informator reported that at the time of the attack in the maternity hospital there were 12 women giving birth, four newborns and medical personnel. [96] All of them survived since they had relocated to a shelter. [96] Two schools and a library were also damaged as a result of the rocket attacks. [97]
The following day was declared a day of mourning. [98]
Two days after the attack another man died in hospital due to injuries sustained in the 29 December 2023 attacks. [4] On 31 December 2023 eighteen, including a 18-month-old baby, attack victims were still in hospital. [4] Two patients were in serious condition. [4]
In the evening of 12 February a thermal power plant in Dnipro was significantly damaged in a drone and missile attack (one missile and 11 drones). [99] No casualties were reported. [99] The plant stopped operations. [100]
Ukrainian Air Defence Forces reported that they had shot down 10 Shahed drones flying over Dnipro Raion, but that this one drone had (still) hit its target. [99] The all-clear was given at 00:35 on 13 February. [99]
On 13 February a city hospital was evacuated and several city school were closed due to heating issues. [100]
In the night of 22–23 February a Russian Shahed kamikaze drone hit a high-rise residential building in Dnipro's Amur-Nyzhniodniprovskyi District [5] [101] and an unnamed businessfacility. [22] Eight people were injured. [22] Ukrainian Air Defence Forces claimed five attack drones were destroyed in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, but others could not be intercepted. [22] In the afternoon of 23 February the lifeless bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from the rubble of the apartment building. [5] Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov declared 24 February a day of mourning. [102]
In the evening of 25 February 10 private houses and several cars were damaged due to a Russian attack. [23] The attack injures two men and two women. [23] According to Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak air defence had downed three cruise missiles and three UAVs. [23]
In the largest Russian attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure since the 2022 invasion Dnipro was damaged too. [103] [104] In this 22 March nightly attack high-rise buildings and private houses were damaged by falling wreckage of shot down rockets and kamikaze drones, no injuries were reported. [105] Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak reported that 7 drones and 14 rockets had been shot down in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. [106] The attack left 156 houses in Dnipro without heating. [107] Emergency electricity shutdown schedules were introduced. [108] Parts of the city were also left without water due to the attack leading to a lack of energy supply. [109] [110]
In the early hours of 2 April four houses were damaged by a Russian attack of Shahed drones. [111] No injuries were reported. [111] Another 9 drones heading to Dnipro were shot down. [111] In the afternoon a Russian missile strike damaged a kindergarten, a college and a commercial enterprise. [112] [113] The attack injured eighteen people including children aged 14 to 17 (five children were hospitalized). [24] [112] [114] According to Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Serhiy Lysak "Fortunately, all of the children were hiding when the blow was delivered. This may have saved their lives." [113] Later in the afternoon the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces claimed to have shot down a Russian Kh-59 cruise missile that was destined to destroy an unknown target in Dnipro. [114]
At (as reported) 17.50 hours on 14 April the debris of a destroyed cruise missile fell down in Dnipro and Lyubymivka hromada injuring 13 people. [25]
In the morning of 19 April three people were killed in a Russian attack on a residential building and 24 people were injured. [6] [115] More than a dozen residential, public transport, commercial and educational buildings were damaged by the attack. [116] Operations at Dnipro railway station were temporarily suspended. [117] [118] The shockwave of the explosion (also) damaged Dnipro's Central Bus Station , its operations were also temporarily suspended. [119] 16 rockets and 10 drones were fired at Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. [120] According to the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces the Russian forces had fired a total of 22 missiles of various types and 14 attack drones at Ukraine, of this total number 22 had been reportedly shot down. [121] Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov declared 20 April a day of mourning. [122] [123] Filatov stated that the city had been struck with a Kh-22 missile "designed to destroy aircraft carriers." [124] [123] In the early evening (of 19 April) President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the site of the Russian attack where he thanked the city's emergency workers. [125]
Wreckage of downed Russian drones damaged infrastructure facilities and a high-rise building in Dnipro in the early hours of 5 May. [126] No injuries were reported. [126]
On 15 May wreckage of downed Russian Kh-69 missile killed two people. [7] Residential houses, an administrative building and a dog shelter were damaged in the attack. [7]
Missile debris from two Iskander-K cruise missiles shot down by the Ukrainian air force in the early hours of 4 June damaged private houses, causing a fire and injuring seven people, including two minors (the oldest being 17 years old, the youngest 1 month old). [26]
On 28 June a Russian missile strike hit a nine-storey residential building in Dnipro, killing one person and injuring 13 and two women considered missing. [27] Among the injured was a 7-month-old baby and a pregnant woman. [27] Six days later (4 July 2024) a body of a woman was found under the rubble raising the death toll of attack to three. [8] On 4 July 90% of the rubble of the building was removed, this rubble weighed 1,600 ton. [127] [128]
A Russian nighttime ballistic missile attack on 1 July wounded seven people. [28] Private and multi-storey residential buildings, a shop and cars were damaged. [28]
A morning strike on 3 July (instantly) killed 5 people and injured 53. [29] The following two days two of the injured died in hospital, raising the death toll of attack to seven. [9] A hospital, a shopping centre, two schools and three kindergartens were damaged. [29] [129] 5 July was a day of mourning (in the city). [29] [130] The Ukrainian Air Force claimed it had downed six drones and five out of seven missiles which had targeted Dnipro. [29]
On 8 July, in an attack that was part of a large daytime aerial attack on Ukraine, one person was killed in Dnipro and twelve more injured. [10] Three people were hospitalized, one in serious condition. [131] [10] A high-rise building and a gas station were hit. [10]
The 26 August 2024 Russian massive missile and drone attacks against Ukraine also affected Dnipro. [132] In Dnipro Raion one man died due to the attack while another man was rescued alive from the rubble of a holiday home. [133] Power outages caused by attacks were reported in the city (of Dnipro). [132] The following day continuing (scheduled) power outages (due to the destruction by Russia of parts of Ukraine's energy grid) disrupted the working of traffic lights, plunging the city into traffic jams. [134]
A Russian missile attack on Dnipro in the evening on 2 September killed a 51-year-old man and injured six people. [11] A 37-year-old spend the following night in hospital while the five others recovered at home. [11] All the windows or a kindergarten and seven houses were broken and premises belonging to a business were damaged. [11] Three cars were burnt out and 12 more were damaged. [11]
In the evening of 25 October a missile attack on Dnipro damaged residential buildings. [135] Five people were killed and 21 injured (including 7 hospitalized). [12] One two-story building was completely destroyed and another one partially destroyed (both situated in Novokodatskyi District) and the Mechnikov Hospital and two dozen apartment buildings were damaged. [12] [136] [137] 27 October was declared a day of mourning by the city council of Dnipro. [138]
In the evening of 30 October an attack with Shahed drones injured a 14-year-old. [30]
In the afternoon of 1 November Dnipro was hit by a missile attack, other then it causing a fire and windows have being blown out, no casulties were reported. [139]
Overnight and in the early morning of 17 November Russia launched a massive air attack with over 200 missile and drones on cities across Ukraine. [140] In Dnipro during this attack high-rise buildings, schools and cars were damaged. [31] A 42-year-old man was injured. [31]
Shortly after five in the morning of 21 November a series of explosions were audible in Dnipro for around three hours. [141] Three people were injured. [32] A rehabilitation centre for people with disabilities was damaged, two houses were damaged and nine garages were set on fire. [142] [143] The Ukrainian Air Force claimed that the attack had been carried out by a Russian RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which would be the first time that an ICBM had been used in any armed conflict. [144] [145] Anonymous western officials through ABC News dismissed this claim as being an exaggeration and they claimed that the weapon used was a shorter-range ballistic missile, similar to the types used repeatedly by Russia against Ukraine since the start of the war. [144] The Ukrainian Air Force also claimed that its anti-aircraft missile units had destroyed six of the seven Kh-101 missiles used in the attack [145] and that the other missiles used "did not cause any significant damage." [145] Speaking during an unannounced televised in the evening of 21 November Russian president Vladimir Putin claimed the morning strike was carried out using "a new conventional intermediate-range missile" called Oreshnik. [146] [nb 6] [nb 7]
Dnipro is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnipro River, after which its name is derived. Dnipro is the administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada. Dnipro has a population of 968,502.
Nyzhniodniprovskyi District, formerly known as Amur-Nyzhniodniprovskyi District is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in southern Ukraine. It is located on the city's north and on the left-bank of Dnieper River along with the city's Industrialnyi and Samarskyi districts.
Novokodatskyi District is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in central Ukraine. It is in the western part of the city and borders the city of Kamianske.
Sobornyi District is an urban district of the city of Dnipro, in southern Ukraine. It is located in the city's center on the right-bank of the Dnieper River.
Casualties in the Russo-Ukrainian War include six deaths during the 2014 annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, 14,200–14,400 military and civilian deaths during the War in Donbas, and up to 1,000,000 estimated casualties during the Russian invasion of Ukraine till mid-September 2024.
During the southern Ukraine offensive of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the city of Odesa and the surrounding region have been the target of shelling and air strikes by Russian forces on multiple occasions since the conflict began, fired predominantly from Russian warships situated offshore in the Black Sea. The city has also been targeted by Russian cruise missiles.
There have been attacks in mainland Russia as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began on 24 February 2022. The main targets have been the military, the arms industry and the oil industry. Many of the attacks have been drone strikes, firebombing, and rail sabotage. The Ukrainian intelligence services have acknowledged carrying out some of these attacks. Others have been carried out by anti-war activists in Russia. There have also been cross-border shelling, missile strikes, and covert raids from Ukraine, mainly in Belgorod, Kursk, and Bryansk oblasts. Several times, Ukrainian-based paramilitaries launched incursions into Russia, captured border villages and battled the Russian military. These were carried out by units made up mainly of Russian emigrants. While Ukraine supported these ground incursions, it denied direct involvement.
The battle of Huliaipole is an ongoing military conflict between the Armed Forces of Russia and the Armed Forces of Ukraine over the city of Huliaipole, in central Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
The 2022–present bombing of Lviv and the Lviv Oblast began after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The targets are civilian and military, including electricity, railway infrastructure, and an army base. At least 64 civilians were killed.
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military have carried out deliberate attacks against civilian targets and indiscriminate attacks in densely-populated areas. The United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine says the Russian military exposed the civilian population to unnecessary and disproportionate harm by using cluster bombs and by firing other weapons with wide-area effects into civilian areas, such as missiles, heavy artillery shells and multiple launch rockets. As of 2024, the attacks had resulted in the UN-documented deaths of between 11,000 and estimated 40,000 dead civilians. On 22 April 2022, the UN reported that of the 2,343 civilian casualties it had been able to document, it could confirm 92.3% of these deaths were as a result of the actions of the Russian armed forces.
Beginning in July 2022, a series of explosions and fires occurred on the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula, from where the Russian Army had launched its offensive on Southern Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Occupied since 2014, Crimea was a base for the subsequent Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast and Russian occupation of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
Russia launched waves of missile and drone strikes against energy in Ukraine as part of its invasion. From 2022 the strikes targeted civilian areas beyond the battlefield, particularly critical power infrastructure, which is considered a war crime. By mid-2024 the country only had a third of pre-war electricity generating capacity, and some gas distribution and district heating had been hit.
Russian occupiers carried out a series of artillery fire and air raids in the city of Kryvyi Rih during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, aerial warfare took place as early as the dawn of 24 February 2022, with Russian infantry and armored divisions entering into Eastern Ukraine with air support. Dozens of missile attacks were reported across Ukraine. The main infantry and tank attacks were launched in four spearhead incursions, creating a northern front launched towards Kyiv, a southern front originating in Crimea, a south-eastern front launched at the cities of Luhansk and Donbas, and an eastern front. Dozens of missile strikes across Ukraine also reached as far west as Lviv. Drones have also been a critical part of the invasion, particularly in regards to combined arms warfare. Drones have additionally been employed by Russia in striking Ukrainian critical infrastructure, and have been used by Ukraine to strike military infrastructure in Russian territory.
On 14 January 2023 at about 3:30 p.m., a Russian Kh-22 missile struck a nine-story residential building in Dnipro, Ukraine, on Naberezhna Peremohy St, 118, Sobornyi District in the right-bank part of the city, destroying one entrance and 236 apartments. On 19 January the official casualty rate was stated as 46 people killed and 80 injured and 11 people reported missing. 14 children were reported injured, and 39 inhabitants were rescued. The destruction left about 400 people homeless. The strike was part of months-long campaign of Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure that also had hit Dnipro.
The history of Dnipro starts with the human settlement of the city, which is first attested in the Neolithic period. In the Antiquity, the area of the future city was ruled by Scythians and a number of other tribes. In the Middle Ages, an Orthodox monastery existed on one of the islands on the Dneper, which now lays in the city borders. The region was devastated by the Mongol invasion of Rus' and later came under the influence of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. During this period, settlements of Zaporozhian Cossacks appeared on the lands of modern-day Dnipro, and a Polish fortress was constructed on one of the rapids south of the city.
The Russian Armed Forces have launched several rocket attacks on Mykolaiv, Ukraine, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In the early morning hours of 29 December 2023, Russia launched what was seen to be the largest wave of missiles and drones yet seen in the Russo-Ukrainian War, with hundreds of missiles and drones hitting the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities across the country. At least 58 people were reported to have been killed in the attacks, while 160 others were injured.
In the morning hours of 22 March 2024, Russia carried out one of the largest missile and drone attacks against Ukraine in the series of similar Russian attacks during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War with 88 missiles and 63 drones. Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kryvyi Rih, Khmelnytskyi, Poltava Oblast, Vinnytsia Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Sumy Oblast and other parts of the country were subjected to rocket fire by the Russian army. The Dnieper Hydroelectric Station was put out of action.
This timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine covers the period from 1 August 2024 to the present day.
The decision comes into force from the date of its adoption.