Russian Strike Hits Dnipro High-Rise, 4 Injured, Including 2 Children

Four people, including two eight-year-old girls, were injured when a Russian strike damaged the upper floors of a multi-story residential building in the central city of Dnipro late Saturday evening, Oct. 10, municipal authorities reported. Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov confirmed the hit on his Telegram channel, stating that the blast damaged apartments on the eighth and ninth floors of the residential high-rise.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Emergency rescue teams and municipal utility crews were dispatched to secure the structure and assist residents. Casualty figures rose to four overnight as medical teams assessed residents. Among the wounded were two eight-year-old girls; one was hospitalized for emergency treatment, while the second child, alongside a 29-year-old woman and a 61-year-old man, received outpatient care. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine (DSNS) reported that rescuers identified a gas leak in the damaged apartment block following the impact. Utility engineers disconnected the building from municipal gas, water, and electrical lines to avert secondary detonations and ensure safe conditions for emergency search-and-rescue operations. Compounding civilian casualties across Dnipropetrovsk region The evening strike on the residential block in Dnipro capped a day of intense Russian aerial attacks targeting civilian population centers across Dnipropetrovsk region. Earlier on Saturday, 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 an explosive munition from an unmanned aerial vehicle in the Pokrovska territorial community within the Nikopol district, regional military governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported. Other Topics of Interest Russia, With Uganda’s Help, Backs UN Resolution Calling Unilateral Sanctions Unlawful Moscow helped secure a UN resolution challenging unilateral sanctions, using international institutions to resist economic pressure. The strikes in Dnipro and Nikopol unfolded amid a broader wave of Russian standoff bombardments directed against urban centers and critical infrastructure across central Ukraine on Saturday. In Kyiv, Russian forces conducted a daylight ballistic missile strike on the capital’s northern Obolonskyi district, hitting a restaurant building, igniting a major blaze, and scattering missile fragments across an adjacent residential courtyard. The ballistic missile attack in Kyiv followed morning waves of turbojet loitering munitions that damaged power distribution facilities in Kyiv region. The resulting grid instability knocked offline municipal water pumping stations, prompted emergency blackouts in Pivdenna Borshchahivka, and precipitated voltage drops that temporarily shut down all three lines of the Kyiv metro network while paralyzing municipal electric surface transit. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization, reporting since 1995. Its international reach – 90% of readers are outside of Ukraine – make it truly Ukraine’s global voice.