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Russia Woman in Nikopol killed by Russian artillery fire

SDA

19.8.2025 - 22:06

ARCHIVE - A man collects copper wires at a market in Nikopol, which was destroyed by Russian shelling. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP/dpa/Symbolic image
ARCHIVE - A man collects copper wires at a market in Nikopol, which was destroyed by Russian shelling. Photo: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP/dpa/Symbolic image
Keystone

A woman has been killed in the south-eastern Ukrainian industrial city of Nikopol as a result of Russian artillery fire. Another woman was injured and taken to hospital, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Serhiy Lysak, announced on Telegram. According to the information, a five-storey residential building was damaged.

Keystone-SDA

19.08.2025, 22:06

Nikopol is located on the Ukrainian-controlled side of the Dnipro River opposite the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

Ukraine has been defending itself against a Russian invasion for almost three and a half years.

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