Three air strikes early on Friday in Ukraine’s central metropolis of Dnipro killed a minimum of one particular person, state emergency providers mentioned, including that the strikes have been near a kindergarten and an house constructing.
The strikes got here amid preparations by the US, along with the Group of Seven nations and the European Union, to revoke Russia’s “most favored nation” standing over its invasion of Ukraine.
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On Sunday, Ukraine had warned that Russia was mustering forces to encircle Dnipro, dwelling to about a million individuals earlier than the invasion began.
In the meantime, Russian troops have launched a high-precision, long-range assault on two navy airfields within the Ukrainian cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk and brought them out of motion, Russian information companies quoted Russian Protection Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov as saying on Friday.
He additionally mentioned that Russian forces had destroyed 3,213 Ukrainian navy installations because the launch of what Russia calls a “particular navy operation” in Ukraine.
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