Article 6PQVT ‘Everything is a target’: Dnipro suffers consequences of Russia’s bloody war

‘Everything is a target’: Dnipro suffers consequences of Russia’s bloody war

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Luke Harding in Dnipro. Photos by Alessio Mamo
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Ukrainian city of 1 million people hit by number of deadly aerial attacks seemingly aimed at terrorising the population

At 5pm on 28 June, Lana Yefimova left work as usual, walking from her office in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Minutes later a Russian rocket hit the nine-storey apartment block opposite her workplace and crashed through the upper floors, ripping through ceilings. I ran back to find a fire. It was huge. My colleague Yulia was hurt. She broke her pelvis. I was in shock," Yefimova said.

Four people were killed inside the residential building at 24a Vikonkomivska Street and 12 injured, including a pregnant woman and a baby. The attack was seemingly random - another erratic death-bringing moment in Russia's bloody war. They want to frighten us so we leave," Yefimova said. It's politics. And terror."

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