Russian Attacks Wound 8 in Dnipropetrovsk Region

Eight people were injured as Russian struck the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 20 times with drones, artillery, and a guided aerial bomb (KAB) on Friday, Aug. 28.Seven people were injured in Pavlohrad, where a Russian strike set a home-improvement supermarket on fire and damaged a private house, Oleksandr Hanzha, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, reported.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.Two women, aged 20 and 56, and a 69-year-old man were hospitalized in serious condition. Four other women were injured and received outpatient treatment.Supermarket catches fireHanzha initially reported that four people had been injured in the Pavlohrad attack, three of whom were in serious condition.The number of injured rose to seven, according to a follow-up statement issued at 7:30 p.m. local time.Other districts hit as wellIn Nikopol district, Russian forces targeted Nikopol and the Marhanets, Pokrovske, and Chervonohryhorivka communities. An apartment building and a vehicle were damaged.A 41-year-old woman was injured in the attacks and hospitalized in moderate condition, Hanzha said.Russian forces also targeted the Vasylkivka and Mykolaivka communities in Synelnykove district, damaging private homes.In the Kryvyi Rih district, an attack on the Zelenodolsk community damaged infrastructure.Earlier on Friday, Russian forces struck Nova Poshta warehouse facilities in the Kyiv region, then hit the same site twice more in as firefighters were battling the resulting blaze. Other Topics of Interest Russia Burns Thousands of Ukrainian Books in Strikes on Multiple Warehouses Warehouses used by A-ba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha, Vivat and bookstores Readeat and Book.ua were hit. Around the same time, Russia also struck Zaporizhzhia’s last operating Epicentr shopping center, injuring at least four people.Just a day earlier, on Thursday, Aug. 27, Russian forces struck an Epicentr shopping center in Kharkiv’s Osnovianskyi district with a jet-powered drone, killing one man and injuring five others.Russian President Vladimir Putin made a series of statements regarding the war in Ukraine on Saturday, Aug. 22, after a Russian drone strike on a shopping mall in Kryvyi Rih killed at least 16 civilians and injured 140. He called the impact of the strikes in Ukraine “positive.”Nine people, including two children, remained missing after a Russian double-tap drone attack on a major shopping center.According to Ukrainian officials, the second drone hit approximately 30 minutes after the first, specifically targeting the emergency responders who had arrived to extinguish fires and search for survivors.Russia continues to strike civilians and civilian infrastructure, as well as emergency responders in “double-tap” attacks, violating international humanitarian law. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization, reporting since 1995. Its international reach – 97% of readers are outside of Ukraine – make it truly Ukraine’s global voice.