Russian Strikes Kill 2 in Dnipropetrovsk, Wound Over a Dozen Across Kharkiv, Chernihiv Regions

Russian forces killed two people and wounded 13 others across three Ukrainian regions on Tuesday, Sept. 8, with the heaviest toll recorded in Dnipropetrovsk. Russian forces struck four districts of the region nearly 50 times using drones, artillery, and an aerial bomb (KAB), killing two people and wounding nine as of 7:30 p.m. local time, according to Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Separate strikes also hit the Kharkiv and Chernihiv regions. Damage across Dnipropetrovsk districts The Nikopol district bore the brunt of the attack, with the Nikopol, Marhanets, Pokrovsk, and Myriv communities coming under fire. Two men were killed there, while six other people were wounded, including a 33-year-old man hospitalized in moderate condition. Advertisement The remaining victims received outpatient treatment. In Dnipro, a fire broke out during the strikes, injuring a 31-year-old woman who received treatment at home, according to Hanzha. In the Kryvyi Rih district, Russian forces struck the Zelenodolsk and Hrushivka communities, injuring a 54-year-old woman while damaging a private home and a vehicle. In the Synelnykove district, strikes on the Petropavlivka and Zaitseve communities set a business and a private residence on fire, injuring a 67-year-old woman who received outpatient treatment. Kharkiv, Chernihiv also struck The Dnipropetrovsk attack came amid a broader wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine on Tuesday. In Kharkiv's Kyivskyi district, a Russian drone struck a gas station, injuring two people and sparking a fire that set a fuel pump and a car ablaze, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service (SES). Other Topics of Interest Russian Generals Simulate War With NATO for Years More than 900 officers joined one simulation involving Japan and US forces, while another focused on Sweden's strategic Gotland island. Emergency crews extinguished the blaze, and State Emergency Service units, medics, and police responded at the scene. In the Chernihiv region, Russian forces struck a shopping center in Pryluky, injuring two people and triggering a large-scale fire, according to a separate statement from the SES. Rescue crews had to repeatedly retreat to safety amid the threat of follow-up strikes – a precaution against Russia's so-called 'double-tap' tactic, in which a second strike targets the same site it previously hit, aimed at rescue crews and emergency responders. Advertisement The SES reported that around 50 rescuers and 15 units of emergency equipment were deployed to the scene before fully extinguishing the blaze. Kyiv city and region repeatedly targeted A massive Russian barrage of missiles and drones struck Kyiv overnight, killing five people and injuring seven, even as a three-day ceasefire tied to visits by senior US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner was supposed to be in effect. Russian drones were tracked heading toward Kyiv and its suburbs on Monday, Sept. 7, hours ahead of Moscow's own stated deadline, while air raid sirens repeatedly sounded throughout the ceasefire period. Although Witkoff said Monday that 'substantive progress was made [during the envoys' visit to Kyiv and Moscow over the weekend], including movement on scheduling additional trilateral talks,' Russia continued intensifying its attacks on Ukraine, casting further doubt on the possibility of reaching an agreement.