During the

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, the

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have launched several missile attacks over the city of

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. These have led to dozens of fatalities and over a hundred injuries among the civilian population.

Strikes in 2022

March

was first hit during the

on 11 March 2022. Three missiles hit the city and killed one person, striking close to an apartment building and a kindergarten. On 15 March, the

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was heavily damaged by Russian missiles. This destroyed the runaway of the airport. On 30 March, Russian forces struck an oil terminal in Dnipro, destroying it. There were no casualties.

April

Another attack on the Dnipro airport on 10 April completely destroyed the airport and the infrastructure nearby. One Ukrainian

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was destroyed in the ground inside its hangar, one Ukrainian technician was wounded as well.

June

On 28 June, Russian forces fired six 3M-14E Kalibr

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s from the

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to Dnipro at around 5:30 local time. One of them hit an Avtodiesel car repair shop, killing a man and a woman. Other seven people, including a six-year-old boy, were injured. Fragments of the Kalibr missile were found afterwards.

July

An attack on Dnipro proper was carried out by Russian armed forces on 15 July 2022. As a result, four people died, 16 were injured. The main target was the largest space plant of Ukraine located within the city. The city was shelled from

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aircraft from the northern part of the

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with X-101 missiles. According to preliminary data, a total of eight rockets were fired. Four missiles were shot down by the

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. Each missile costs 13 million dollars (8 missiles cost Russia more than 100 million dollars). Part of the rockets hit the " Pivdenmash" enterprise. As a result of the impact, the city's water supply was damaged, and part of the city's residents were left without water supply. More than ten cars were damaged, doors and windows were destroyed in residential buildings. Four people were killed. One of the victims is a city bus driver. On the first day, 15 wounded were reported, and the next day their number increased to 16.

September

On the morning of 29 September 2022 missiles hit residential areas in Dnipro, and three people were killed. The central bus station was also hit.

October

Dnipro was also hit during the 10 October 2022 Russian missile strikes on critical infrastructure. It was hit by at least five missiles. During the attack that took place during morning rush hour three civilians were killed. On 18 October 2022 Russian missile strikes targeted the energy infrastructure of Dnipro. One man was injured and a large-scale fire broke out at an energy infrastructure facility that was severely damaged.Man wounded, over 30 residential buildings damaged in Dnipro
Lb.ua (18 October 2022) Also more than three dozen residential buildings were damaged, including schools and kindergartens. On 25 October 2022 two people were killed, including a pregnant woman, and four injured due to a fire at a petrol station in Dnipro after fragments of a Russian missile had hit it.

November

In the early hours of 9 November 2022 Russian forces deployed

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s in an attack hitting a logistics business and causing a large fire. Four employees sustained injuries, three severe. Anti-aircraft defence systems (reportedly) destroyed five

loitering munition A loitering munition, also known as a suicide drone, kamikaze drone, or exploding drone, is a weapon with a warhead that is typically designed to Loiter (aeronautics), loiter until a target is designated, then crash into it. Around 08:30 in the morning of 15 November, while people where commuting to work, Dnipro was hit by a strike on (according to Prime Minister

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) the

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missile plant. Governor of

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Valentyn Reznichenko stated that an industrial company, houses, trolleybuses and a "lively street" were damaged. Reznichenko claimed that 23 people were injured, including a teenager. Dnipro mayor

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claimed a city hall employee was wounded in the attack while out helping elderly women.
On 26 November 2022, around noon, a Russian missile strike on Dnipro injured 13 people and partially destroyed seven private houses in Dnipro's Amur-Nyzhnodniprovskyi District.

Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov reported that city communications and infrastructure were not damaged. Governor Valentyn Reznichenko stated that due to the attack one woman was hospitalised in critical condition.
The following day Reznichenko reported that a man was found dead under the rubble. A Russian nightly multiple missile strike destroyed an enterprise 29 November 2022. No (human) casualties were reported.

Strikes in 2023

January

On 14 January a multi-storey residential building in Dnipro was hit by a Russian attack. The explosion was heard at approximately 3:41 p.m. A local air alert had begun at 2 p.m. On 19 January, 46 people are known to be killed and 80 to be injured. Eleven people remain missing. 39 people were rescued.

March

On 9 March Dnipro was also hit during a nationwide Russian missile strike. According to the

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dozens of buildings were damaged by blast waves and in more than 120 apartments windows were broken. Fragments of a rocket were scattered almost all over the terrain of yacht club Sich. No casualties were reported. During a night attack on 27–28 March a Russian drone hit a private business in Dnipro and caused a large-scale fire. No casualties were reported. According to

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April

On 28 April a mother and her three-year-old daughter were killed in their home in a rural suburb of Dnipro. According to Governor Lysak seven Russian missiles had targeted the city. Local police told neighbours (of the victims) that fragments of one of them, shot down by air defences, appeared to have fallen on the house.

May

On 3 May, in the night, a drone hit an administrative building in Dnipro. According to Governor Lysak it was set on fire, although that was put out by morning. Lysak also reported that the attack had not lead to casualties.

reported that they had shot down 7 missiles flying over Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and that this one drone had (still) hit its target. In the evening of 8 May a 32-year-old woman was wounded and hospitalised when debris from Russian missiles fell on a four-storey building in Dnipro. A missile warhead was found on the third floor of the building. All eight missiles launched by Russian forces on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast were downed by Ukrainian Air Defence Forces.
During the night of 21–22 May the premises of a private firm were hit by a Russian missile strike; eight people were injured (three of them hospitalised) and three buildings were damaged as a result. 20 pieces of equipment of the

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were destroyed. Ukraine's air defence forces reported that they had shot down 15 Russian drones and four cruise missiles during the attack on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
On 26 May a Russian missile strike hit an outpatient clinic and a veterinarian clinic, killing 4 people and injuring 30 (three severely wounded). The missile attack hit a three-storey building within a medical institution that was partially destroyed and caught fire. The fire then also engulfed a neighbouring building.
Among the injured were a baby and a child, born in 2020 and 2017 respectively. 27 May was declared a day of mourning for those who died as a result of the attack.

June

During the night of 3–4 June a Russian missiles struck a residential area killing a two-year-old girl and injuring another 22 people, including five children. The attack destroyed or damaged several buildings in Pidhorodne, which lies on the outskirts of Dnipro city. According to the

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one Iskander-K missile had hit a two-story apartment building. (According to local police) 10 private houses, cars, shops and gas pipelines were destroyed after a fire broke out as a result of the explosion. The rescue operation was completed at 3 am. In the nighttime of 24 June 11 people, including three children, were injured in a missile attack that destroyed four homes in a residential area. The blast wave damaged more than 20 buildings.

July

At around 20.30 hour on 28 July 2023 a Russian missiles attack (locals heard two explosions) hit a high-rise building in the centre of Dnipro. A new residential complex, where many apartments were still uninhabited, was damaged. An office of the

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was also hit, but was reported to have been not in use for a while.

Dnipro mayor

claimed that Russian Iskander missals had hit the buildings. Nine injured were reported and no deaths have been reported. On 29 July 2023

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's Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed "On the evening of July 28, the

targeted the Ukrainian armed forces' command center in the city of

with high-precision weapons. The target was hit."

August

At 4:20 hour on 15 August 2023 one of the industrial facilities in Dnipro was hit, 2 wounded were reported. At around the same time a

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was also hit, with no casualties reported. Later that day Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed that these attacks had been a "concentrated blow to key enterprises in the military industry of the Kyiv regime." According to him, the goal of the strikes was achieved. At around 2:30 hour on 24 August 2023 (

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) multiple rockets hit .
Ten people were injured, six were hospitalised with minor injuries. 15 shops near the station were destroyed or damaged. Besides the bus station 10 other buildings were also damaged including two residential buildings, a bank, a petrol station, a hotel, premises belonging to an agricultural company, a furniture manufacturer and an administrative building. Additionally three buses and several cars, a trolleybus network line, as well as water and gas pipelines, were damaged. Later that day Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov claimed that the previous night "a multiple-launch strike by seaborne and ground-based long-range precision weapons against a Ukrainian military command center" had destroyed this target.

September

On 23 September

Serhiy Lysak Serhii Petrovych Lysak () is a former agent of the Security Service of Ukraine who is since 7 February 2023 Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

October

On 3 October

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s and a

that had been shot down over

, had caused a fire at a Dnipro private firm that was quickly doused.
In a later update Lysak stated that a school, a kindergarten, a petrol station and three apartment buildings in Dnipro were damaged by "fragments of downed Russian junk"; in addition to a warehouse being destroyed by fire.

December

On 29 December 2023,

launched at least 122 cruise and

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and 36 drones which struck multiple cities (

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and

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and) including Dnipro, in what was one of the largest aerial attacks on Ukraine so far.

Serhiy Lysak Serhii Petrovych Lysak () is a former agent of the Security Service of Ukraine who is since 7 February 2023 Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Missiles struck a shopping centre, a maternity hospital a house and a six-storey residential building. Local

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''Informator'' reported that at the time of the attack in the maternity hospital there were 12 women giving birth, four newborns and medical personnel. All of them survived since they had relocated to a shelter. Two schools and a library were also damaged as a result of the rocket attacks. The following day was declared a day of mourning. Two days after the attack another man died in hospital due to injuries sustained in the 29 December 2023 attacks. On 31 December 2023 18 people, including a 18-month-old baby, attack victims were still in hospital. Two patients were in serious condition.

Strikes in 2024

February

In the evening of 12 February a thermal power plant in Dnipro was significantly damaged in a drone and missile attack (one missile and 11 drones). No casualties were reported. The plant stopped operations.

reported that they had shot down 10

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s flying over

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, but that this one drone had (still) hit its target.

The all-clear was given at 00:35 on 13 February. On 13 February a city hospital was evacuated and several city school were closed due to heating issues. In the night of 22–23 February a Russian Shahed kamikaze drone hit a high-rise residential building in Dnipro's

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and an unnamed businessfacility. Eight people were injured. Ukrainian Air Defence Forces claimed five attack drones were destroyed in

, but others could not be intercepted.
In the afternoon of 23 February the lifeless bodies of a man and a woman were recovered from the rubble of the apartment building.
Dnipro Mayor

declared 24 February a day of mourning. In the evening of 25 February 10 private houses and several cars were damaged due to a Russian attack. The attack injures two men and two women.
According to

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and three

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March

In the largest Russian attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure since the 2022 invasion Dnipro was damaged too. In this 22 March nightly attack

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s and private houses were damaged by falling wreckage of shot down rockets and kamikaze drones, no injuries were reported.

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s. No injuries were reported. Another nine drones heading to Dnipro were shot down. In the afternoon a Russian missile strike damaged a kindergarten, a college and a commercial enterprise. The attack injured 18 people including children aged 14 to 17 (five children were hospitalized).
According to

Serhiy Lysak Serhii Petrovych Lysak () is a former agent of the Security Service of Ukraine who is since 7 February 2023 Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. Later in the afternoon the

claimed to have shot down a Russian

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that was destined to destroy an unknown target in Dnipro. At (as reported) 17.50 hours on 14 April the debris of a destroyed cruise missile fell down in Dnipro and Lyubymivka hromada injuring 13 people.
In the morning of 19 April three people were killed in a Russian attack on a residential building and 24 people were injured.
More than a

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residential, public transport, commercial and educational buildings were damaged by the attack.
Operations at Dnipro railway station were temporarily suspended. The

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of the explosion (also) damaged , its operations were also temporarily suspended. 16 rockets and 10 drones were fired at

. According to the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces the Russian forces had fired a total of 22 missiles of various types and 14 attack drones at Ukraine, of this total number 22 had been reportedly shot down. Dnipro Mayor

declared 20 April a day of mourning. Filatov stated that the city had been struck with a

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missile "designed to destroy

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s." In the early evening (of 19 April)

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visited the site of the Russian attack where he thanked the city's emergency workers.

May

Wreckage of downed Russian drones damaged infrastructure facilities and a high-rise building in Dnipro in the early hours of 5 May.

No injuries were reported. On 15 May wreckage of downed Russian Kh-69 missile killed two people.

Residential houses, an administrative building and a dog shelter were damaged in the attack.

June

Missile debris from two Iskander-K

s shot down by the

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in the early hours of 4 June damaged private houses, causing a fire and injuring seven people, including two minors (the oldest being 17 years old, the youngest 1 month old).
On 28 June a Russian missile strike hit a nine-storey residential building in Dnipro, killing one person and injuring 13 and two women considered missing.

Among the injured was a 7-month-old baby and a pregnant woman. Six days later (4 July 2024) a body of a woman was found under the rubble raising the death toll of attack to three. On 4 July 90% of the rubble of the building was removed, this rubble weighed 1,600 ton.

July

A Russian nighttime ballistic missile attack on 1 July wounded seven people.
Private and multi-storey residential buildings, a shop and cars were damaged. A morning strike on 3 July (instantly) killed 5 people and injured 53.
The following two days two of the injured died in hospital, raising the death toll of attack to seven.
A hospital, a shopping centre, two schools and three kindergartens were damaged. 5 July was a day of mourning (in the city). The

Ukrainian Air Force The Ukrainian Air Force (, PS ZSU) is the air force of Ukraine and one of the eight Military branch, branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU). Its current form was created in 2004 by merging the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces into the Air Fo ...

claimed it had downed six drones and five out of seven missiles which had targeted Dnipro. On 8 July, in an attack that was part of a large daytime aerial attack on Ukraine, one person was killed in Dnipro and twelve more injured. Three people were hospitalized, one in serious condition. A high-rise building and a

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were hit.

August

The 26 August 2024 Russian massive missile and drone attacks against Ukraine also affected Dnipro. In

one man died due to the attack while another man was rescued alive from the rubble of a holiday home. Power outages caused by attacks were reported in the city (of Dnipro). The following day continuing (scheduled) power outages (due to the destruction by Russia of parts of Ukraine's energy grid) disrupted the working of traffic lights, plunging the city into traffic jams.

September

A Russian missile attack on Dnipro in the evening on 2 September killed a 51-year-old man and injured six people. A 37-year-old spend the following night in hospital while the five others recovered at home.
All the windows or a kindergarten and seven houses were broken and premises belonging to a business were damaged. Three cars were burnt out and 12 more were damaged.

October

In the evening of 25 October a missile attack on Dnipro damaged residential buildings. Five people were killed and 21 injured (including seven hospitalized). One two-story building was completely destroyed and another one partially destroyed (both situated in

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) and the Mechnikov Hospital and two dozen apartment buildings were damaged.
27 October was declared a

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by the city council of Dnipro. In the evening of 30 October an attack with Shahed drones injured a 14-year-old.

November

In the afternoon of 1 November Dnipro was hit by a missile attack, other than it causing a fire and windows have being blown out, no casualties were reported.
Overnight and in the early morning of 17 November Russia launched a massive air attack with over 200 missile and drones on cities across Ukraine. In Dnipro during this attack high-rise buildings, schools and cars were damaged. A 42-year-old man was injured. Shortly after five in the morning of 21 November a series of explosions were audible in Dnipro for around three hours. Three people were injured. A rehabilitation centre for people with disabilities was damaged, two houses were damaged and nine garages were set on fire. The

claimed that the attack had been carried out by a Russian

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(ICBM), which would be the first time that an ICBM had been used in any armed conflict. Anonymous

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officials through ''

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'' dismissed this claim as being an exaggeration and they claimed that the weapon used was a shorter-range

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, similar to the types used repeatedly by Russia against Ukraine since the start of the war. The Ukrainian Air Force also claimed that its anti-aircraft missile units had destroyed six of the seven

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missiles used in the attack and that the other missiles used "did not cause any significant damage." Speaking during an unannounced televised in the evening of 21 November Russian president

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claimed the morning strike was carried out using "a new conventional intermediate-range missile" called Oreshnik.

December

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) Dnipro was hit by a missile attack, an administrative building and residential building were hit, no casulties were reported. Seven educational institutions were also damaged. A hospitals, that had more than 100 patients, was evacuated. Mid-afternoon about 65 houses were still without heat, with the temperature in Dnipro being 4°C.

Strikes in 2025

January

In the morning of 21 January a warehouse in Dnipro was partially damaged in a Russian missile attack. Casualties or fatalities were not reported. A Russian attack on Dnipro on the night of 26 to 27 January damaged three high-rise residential buildings and industrial buildings in

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in the evening and at night. No casualties or fatalities were reported.

March

In the late evening of 11 March Dnipro was hit by a large-scale drone attack that continued into the night.
A man was injured due to the attacks. Infrastructure, enterprises and around 10 private homes were damaged by the attacks or the fires it created.

All the windows of a school and kindergarten were shattered. Infrastructure was damaged and set on fire by a drone attack in Dnipro on 13 March. Three people sustained shrapnel wounds. In the night of 19 March Dnipro a drone attack caused a fire in Dnipro, one or more of (the) eight shot down

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s caused the fire. The fire did not cause casualties. In the evening of 26 March Dnipro was again attacked by drones.
Three people were injured, over a dozen high-rise buildings and businesses, educational and cultural buildings were damaged. Over 60 cars and two lorries were damaged and several cars were destroyed. Dnipro was attacked by drones on the evening of 28 March.

Four people were killed and 28 people were injured. A large fire broke out in a hotel and restaurant complex, high-rise buildings were damaged, 11 houses, garages and a car repair station caught fire and 21 cars were damaged. Dnipro mayor

declared 30 March as

for the four people killed.

April

In the evening of 8 April a Russian drone attack damaged five high-rise buildings causing fires and damage. 14 people were injured. A Russian missile strike on Dnipro in the afternoon of 10 April killed a man and injured nine others. An infrastructure facility was set on fire and was significantly damaged. The fire covered 6,000

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. According to Biosphere Corporation the attack destroyed one of its (household and hygiene products) warehouses. An attack with

s late in the evening of 16 April killed three people, including one child.

33 people were injured, including six children. About a dozen apartment buildings and a dozen houses were damaged. An educational institution building, a student accommodation building and a secondary school were damaged. Various shops and offices also sustained damage. In the morning of 18 April a Russian missile attack on Dnipro damaged a hotel, an office and a fitness centre. No victims were reported.
In the evening of 29 April a Russian missile attack killed one person. One man was killed and one injured in a 30 April 2025 large-scale

attack on Dnipro. One house and a

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were destroyed and several houses were damaged.

June

On the night of 6–7 June

was hit by a Russian missile and drone attack. In Dnipro a business, an educational institution and several dozen garages and cars were damaged. In a rare daytime attack on 24 June seventeen people were killed and 279 people injured.

According to Dnipro Mayor

19 schools, 10 kindergartens, a vocational school and a music school were damaged. Also damaged were eight medical facilities, a hospital, outpatient clinics, three out-of-school learning centres and a dental clinic and 46 high-rise buildings, 41 private houses and several dormitories. The following day was declared a day of mourning.

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