Death toll in Dnipro rises to nine, including rescue worker and three-year-old boy, six people missing – photos, video

Nine people, including a child and a rescue worker, have been killed and 35 injured in an overnight Russian strike on the city of Dnipro. Three people have also been injured in the neighbouring city of Kamianske.

Source: Oleksandr Hanzha, Head of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration; Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov; State Emergency Service of Ukraine; Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office; Ihor Klymenko, Minister of Internal Affairs; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Quote from Hanzha: "The body of a child born in 2023 has been recovered from under the rubble of a four-storey building devastated by the attack. The Russians killed eight people in Dnipro last night."

Update: At 10:00 Filatov reported that 9 people have been killed in the Russian attack on Dnipro.

Details: Among the dead are a rescue worker and a 60-year-old man who died in hospital.

Later, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko specified that the deputy head of the fire and rescue unit, Major Anton Yarmolenko, had been killed. He was on his way to an emergency call at the time of the strike.

The search and rescue operation is ongoing. The State Emergency Service said people may still be trapped under the rubble of the destroyed four-storey building.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported that six people are considered to be missing.

Details: Hanzha reported that as of this morning, 35 people are known to have been injured in Dnipro, including three children.

Twenty of the injured have been hospitalised, four of whom are in a critical condition, including a 22-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman.

"A total of 24 people, including a 16-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, have been hospitalised in a moderate condition. The rest will receive treatment at home," Hanzha specified.

Filatov reported that "several more people are unaccounted for".

Another three people were injured in Kamianske, located near Dnipro: a 50-year-old man and two women aged 49 and 72 have been taken to hospital in a moderate condition. An office building and high-rise residential buildings were damaged in the city.

Hanzha noted that the Russians had attacked five districts of the oblast using missiles and drones.

The city of Nikopol as well as the Chervonohryhorivka, Pokrovske and Marhanets hromadas in the Nikopol district came under fire. High-rise residential buildings and houses were damaged there. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

The Russians attacked the Vasylkivka hromada in the Synelnykove district, where a disused building caught fire.

The Russians struck the Apostolove hromada in the Kryvyi Rih district, where a fire also broke out.

Background: Russian forces struck Dnipro on the night of 1-2 June. Early reports indicated that five people had been killed and 25 injured.

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