Russian drone and artillery attacks have killed at least five people, including a child and an elderly woman, and injured dozens of others in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk.
"It was a difficult night in Dnipro... Three people were killed in this Russian attack, and among them was a girl, Veronika, who was only 17 years old," said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Local governor Sergei Lisak later updated the death toll to five, adding that 31 people, including five children, were injured in the attack on the city of Dnipro on April 16. Sixteen people were being treated in hospital.
The attack caused several fires, according to Dnipro Mayor Boris Filatov, who said one impact was within 100 meters of the city's municipal offices. He also said at least 15 apartments were damaged, as well as a student dormitory, an educational institution and a food processing factory.
Two more people were killed in Nikopol, a town just five kilometers from Russian forces in the partially occupied Zaporozhye region. Five people were said to have been injured.
"A shop, a cafe, private houses, outbuildings, a car and a bus station were damaged," Lisak said.
Images posted online show a large fire and firefighters working at the scene, as well as destroyed vehicles and buildings with broken windows and damaged facades.
A deadly Russian missile strike has killed at least one person in the eastern Ukrainian town of Konstantinivka.
The town was again targeted by shelling on April 17th, while a Radio Free Europe journalist spoke to locals whose homes had been damaged.
In the northeastern Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Sinyekhubov said two people were injured in a Russian missile strike in the city of Izyum. The city was captured by Russian troops in the early days of the Russian invasion in February 2022, but was retaken by Ukrainian forces later that year.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed or intercepted 71 Ukrainian drones in six Russian regions overnight, with 49 drones downed in the Kursk region.
Radio Free Europe was unable to verify these claims.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with representatives of the defense industry in Kyiv on April 16. He said that Ukraine now produces 40 percent of the weapons used on the front lines.
"Our defense industry already produces more than a thousand types of weapons: from artillery shells to missiles and long-range weapons, to our drones," Zelensky said during the meeting, his office said.
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