Russian Drone Attack Kills 1, Injures 2 in Pavlohrad

A Russian drone attack on the city of Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region killed one person and injured two others in the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 13, according to regional officials. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, reported the casualties around 6:51 p.m. local time, adding that the strike set off a fire in the city center.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. It was not immediately clear who the victims were or what had been struck at the time of the report. Nearly 40 strikes across the region on Tuesday In the afternoon, Hanzha said Russian forces had attacked four districts of the region almost 40 times with drones and artillery, injuring two people. The Nikopol area, which sits across the Dnipro River from Russian-occupied territory, bore the brunt of the strikes. Nikopol and the Marhanets and Pokrovske communities were primarily targeted, damaging apartment blocks, private homes and vehicles. A 31-year-old man and a 73-year-old woman were injured and received outpatient treatment. In the regional capital, Dnipro, the attacks caused fires, while a private house was damaged in the nearby Solone community of Dnipro district. Infrastructure was damaged in the Malomykhailivka community of Synelnykove district, and a private home was hit in the Zelenodolsk community in the Kryvyi Rih area, Hanzha said. In total, Russian attacks on the Dnipropetrovsk region killed one person and injured five on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday, Russian forces attacked Dnipro with guided aerial bombs (KABs), damaging apartment buildings, vehicles, and transport infrastructure and injuring a 64-year-old man. Other Topics of Interest Kyiv Calls WP’s 4-Point Peace Plan ‘American PR’ Zelensky advisor says the four-point proposal reflects ideas from part of the American administration team, not an agreed US-European plan. On Monday, Oct. 12, Russian forces also attacked the city of Dnipro and the surrounding Dniprovskyi district, killing one person and sparking a fire in the shopping center in the region’s suburbs. An 11-year-old boy was killed and two other children were injured on Saturday, Oct. 10, when Russian forces dropped an explosive munition from an unmanned aerial vehicle in the Nikopol district. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization, reporting since 1995. Its international reach – 90% of readers are outside of Ukraine – make it truly Ukraine’s global voice.