Child Killed, 2 Injured in Drone Strike Near Nikopol
An 11-year-old boy was killed and two other children – a 12-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl – were wounded when Russian forces dropped a munition from a drone in Dnipropetrovsk region’s Pokrovska community. The strike in the Nikopol district unfolded as civilian casualties mounted across Ukraine following a ballistic missile strike in Kyiv that injured six and a devastating glide bomb attack…
On Saturday, October 10th, a tragic incident occurred when an 11-year-old boy lost his life and two other children were injured due to a Russian drone strike near Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, confirmed the casualties on his official Telegram channel.
The attack took place in the Pokrovska territorial community, where the Russians deployed an explosive munition from a drone. Both surviving children were rushed to a nearby medical facility for emergency treatment.
The Nikopol district, situated on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, has been under constant threat from Russian artillery shelling, loitering munitions, and tactical drone attacks targeting civilian areas and infrastructure. This fatal drone strike was part of a series of Russian strikes aiming to harm non-combatants and civilian settlements across central and eastern Ukraine on the same day.
Meanwhile, in Kyiv, Russian forces launched a daylight ballistic missile strike on the northern Obolonskyi district, resulting in a major fire and scattering missile debris in an adjacent residential courtyard. The attack followed loitering munitions that damaged electrical distribution nodes in Kyiv region, causing all three lines of the capital's metro network to be shut down, paralyzing electric surface transit, and cutting off municipal water supplies.
Concurrently, emergency responders in Zaporizhzhia continued their efforts to recover victims following a Russian guided aerial bomb (KAB) strike that killed 17 people, including three children, and injured 16 others.
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