‘Around 10 dead’ in Russian strike on central Ukraine military base

According to a local defence official, Russian strikes on a military base in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro early Friday killed almost a dozen individuals and injured more than 30 others.

“A national guard training center was hit this morning by Iskander missiles. People were killed. Unfortunately, about 10 people died and between 30 and 35 people have been injured,” Gennady Korban, the regional head of the national guard, told local Ukrainian media.

Dnipro in central Ukraine has escaped the brunt of damage inflicted by Russian forces in more than three months of fighting, and the city early on became was a hub for displaced Ukrainians fleeing fighting further east.

The region’s governor Valentin Reznitchenko had earlier said that strikes Friday had caused “serious destruction” and that rescue workers were searching for people under the rubble of damaged buildings.

The strikes came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced earlier this week that Russian strikes on a Ukrainian military installation north of Kyiv on May 17 killed 87 people.