Daijiworld Media Network – Kyiv

Kyiv, Apr 25: Russian drone and missile strikes on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed at least four people and injured 21 others in overnight attacks, local authorities said on Saturday.

Dnipropetrovsk regional head Oleksandr Ganzha said the bodies of four victims were recovered from the ruins of a house destroyed in the strikes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said 11 of the injured were undergoing treatment in hospitals in Dnipro.

Officials said the overnight assault triggered fires across the city and caused damage to apartment buildings, businesses and a private residence.

“To the southwest, two more people were injured in drone strikes in the Odesa region,” authorities said, adding that residential buildings, port infrastructure and vehicles were damaged.
In Russia’s Belgorod border region, a woman was killed and a man seriously injured in a drone strike, local officials said.

Following the attacks, Romania’s defence ministry said drone fragments were found in a residential area in the southeastern city of Galati near the Ukrainian border. No casualties were reported.

Romania, a NATO member, has on several earlier occasions reported drone debris falling on its territory during the war.

The attacks came a day after Russia and Ukraine exchanged 193 prisoners each in a rare prisoner swap, one of the few positive outcomes from months of US-brokered talks that have otherwise failed to make progress toward ending the conflict, now in its fifth year.