Four people were killed and 43 injured in a Russian missile attack on the Dnieper, the governor of that Ukrainian region, Vladislav Khayvanenko, announced on Telegram today.
Khayvanenko said ten of the injured were in critical condition.
The Russian attack hit the city center, where the premises of a business were damaged, as well as several apartment buildings, cars, shops and a bank branch, according to a statement from the emergency services.
The Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into the war crimes committed.
The attack occurred this morning as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was in Paris discussing the US plan for resolving the conflict in Ukraine with French President Emmanuel Macron.
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Reuters reported earlier today, citing Ukrainian officials, that four people were killed and 40 wounded in a Russian missile attack on the Dnieper River in east-central Ukraine.
The agency reported at the time that the attack came amid increased diplomatic pressure to end the nearly four-year war, and that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Paris today, a day after his team held talks with US officials.
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Reuters also reported at the time that Khayvanenko, the acting governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, said on the Telegram app that 11 people injured in the attack were in serious condition, and that the search and rescue operation had been completed.
Ukrainian emergency services also said that car repair shops, other businesses, an office building and 49 cars were damaged in the attack.
Vitaly Kovalenko was working in his auto repair shop when the missile hit.
"Everyone was falling to the floor, and then we started checking where the employees were. I ran upstairs and saw that one guy was okay, but he had been hit by shrapnel," he said, adding that, fortunately, all of his workers were alive.
Photos posted on Telegram show firefighters working at the scene of the crash and emergency services evacuating people on stretchers, as well as a body in a black bag, according to Reuters.
The industrial city of Dnipro and the surrounding area are facing Russian missile and drone attacks that have killed civilians and damaged residential buildings, industrial facilities, and infrastructure.
Russia did not immediately comment on the attack.
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