At least four people have been killed and more than a dozen others wounded in drone and missile strikes around Ukraine with one horror video showing the moment of a blast.
Air raid sirens sounded all across Ukraine early Thursday as the Kremlin unleashed its sixth mass attack since early October.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posted a terrifying video that he said was one of the blasts in Dnipro.
The video from a vehicle dashcam shows cars heading down a road on Thursday morning before a fiery blast engulfs a rainy road and a huge fireball explodes.
The attack wounded at least 14 people, among them a teenage girl.
Maria Avdeeva, Research Director at the European Expert Association in Ukraine, wrote on Twitter : "The moment of explosion in Dnipro. People commuting to work in the morning. Currently, 14 are injured, including a 15-year-old girl."
In Kyiv, the city’s military administration said air defences shot down at least two cruise missiles and five Iranian-made exploding drones, but some missiles and drones still got through in Dnipro and Odesa.
According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Russian troops hit the building of the Pivdennyi Machine-Building Plant, Ukraine’s largest aerospace manufacturer.
Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov said a city hall employee was caught up in this morning’s attack while out helping elderly women. He said the employee is being operated on and shrapnel was stuck in her coat.
"During today’s rocket (attack), she and her colleague were just doing their job. Helping infirm elderly women", he said.
Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, said a large fire erupted in Dnipro after the strikes on the city hit an industrial target.
A Russian strike that hit a residential building also killed at least four people overnight in Vilnia in the Zaporizhzhia region.
Zelensky said: "This is another confirmation from Dnipro of how terrorists want peace. The peaceful city and people’s wish to live their accustomed lives. Going to work, to their affairs. A rocket attack!”
State energy company Naftogaz said that the Russian missile strikes on Thursday damaged or destroyed some of Ukraine’s gas production facilities.
“Currently, we know of several objects that have been destroyed. Others have suffered damage of varying degrees,” Naftogaz chief executive Oleksiy Chernyshov said.
The strikes came on the same morning that the Black Sea grain deal was extended by 120 days with the efforts of Turkey and the United Nations.
“Grain Deal will be prolonged for 120 days. Ukraine together with [UN Secretary-General] Antonio Guterres and [Turkish President] Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a key decision in the global fight against the food crisis. Waiting for the official announcement from partners – Türkiye and UN,” Zelensky said on Twitter.
