Two people have been killed and one injured after Russian forces launched further strikes on Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy oblasts on 15 December.

Source: Vladyslav Haivanenko, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration; Oleh Hryhorov, Head of Sumy Oblast Military Administration

Details: Haivanenko reported that a 53-year-old man was killed in a Russian artillery strike on the Nikopol district in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

He also said Russian troops had deployed artillery and first-person view (FPV) drones to attack the area throughout the day. The Russians struck the city of Nikopol as well as the Marhanets, Pokrovske, Myrove and Chervonohryhorivka hromadas. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Russian forces also damaged infrastructure facilities, three houses, a farm building, a garage, cars and power lines.

Drones also attacked the settlements of Pavlohrad and Ternivka. A fire broke out, damaging infrastructure facilities. Drone strikes caused fires, destroyed a farm and a car, and damaged power lines in the Mykolaivka and Pokrovske hromadas in the Synelnykove district.

In addition, a Russian FPV drone hit a shop in the Hrushivka hromada in the Kryvyi Rih district.

A 68-year-old man was killed in the Velyka Pysarivka hromada in Sumy Oblast. A Russian drone struck him as he was riding a bicycle.

A 60-year-old man was injured in a Russian drone strike on the Hlukhiv hromada. He has been taken to hospital and is receiving medical assistance.

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