Massive shelling of Nikopol on April 25

The massive shelling of Nikopol on April 25, unfortunately, did not go without victims – the Russians were chasing the area, where there are always many people. There is a lot of destruction in the city.

Information about the consequences of shelling as of the evening of April 25 was made public in the district military administration, the police and the prosecutor’s office.

According to the chief of the district military administration

Yevhen Yevtushenko, on April 25, there were six artillery attacks and eleven applications of kamikaze drones in the area. Nikopol and the settlements of Marganetska and Myrivska communities fell under the Russian attack. As Oleksandr Sayuk, the chairman of Nikopol, reported earlier, all 11 drones were directed to Nikopol.

Evgeny Yevtushenko reports that out of eleven FPV-kamikaze Four were neutralized by the Defense Forces of Ukraine.

During the day, four people were injured in Nikopol:

• a man born in 2001, provided outpatient care, will be treated at home;
• a man born in 1959, hospitalized in a moderate condition;
• a man born in 1978, hospitalized in a moderate condition;
• a woman born in 1949, hospitalized in a serious condition.

Two people were injured as a result of artillery shelling, two as a result of a kamikaze anti-aircraft fire attack. All hospitalized patients are in a moderate condition and received the necessary assistance.

According to the police, the projectiles were aimed at the city market in Nikopol.

In total, four private houses, one farm building, infrastructure facilities, a greenhouse, a cafe, a market, a garage, two cars and minibuses were mutilated in the area.

In the evening, the Russians again attacked Nikopol with the help of fpv-kamikaze. The consequences are clarified. I ask residents of coastal settlements to spend the night in a storage facility or use the rule of two walls, Yevhen Yevtushenko urged.

Investigative teams worked at the scene.

Prosecutors, in cooperation with other law enforcement officers, take all possible and appropriate measures to document war crimes committed by representatives of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.

Under the procedural leadership of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office, a pre-trial investigation has been initiated in criminal proceedings for violation of the laws and customs of war (Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).