Russian attacks on Nikopol district injure 2 women.

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Russian attacks against the Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast overnight on June 7 injured two women aged 61 and 70, Governor Serhii Lysak said. Russian forces attacked the region with artillery shelling and drones, firing on the Nikopol, Myrove, and Marhanets communities. A total of 15 homes, a garage, two outbuildings, two farm buildings, and several cars were damaged.

Power lines were also affected by the attack. As a result of the attacks, a fire broke out in Nikopol. Nikopol, situated on the banks of the dried-up Kakhovka Reservoir, just across from Russian-occupied Enerhodar and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, is a regular target of Russian attacks.

Three men, aged 52, 65, and 73, as well as a 38-year-old woman, who were sitting on a bus, were injured on June 6 after a Russian drones hit a bus in the city of Nikopol and caused a fire.

Looking back at the Khakhovka Dam explosion one year later (Photos) When Russian forces blew up the Kakhovka Dam on June 6, 2023, they changed the landscape of southern Ukraine permanently. The breach unleashed nearly 20 cubic kilometers of water from the Kakhovka reservoir, a massive body of freshwater spanning three oblasts.

Water levels in sever...