Five killed and 19 wounded in Russian strike on Ukrainian market
The attack is part of a huge wave of over 200 Russian drones launched overnight.
Five people have been killed by a drone strike on a frontline Ukrainian city, according to officials.
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Five people were killed, and 19 were injured in an explosion in the Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Saturday morning, Ukraine's prosecutor general's office said.
Casualties included an 88-year-old pensioner and a 14-year-old girl, who was seriously wounded.
Nikopol, which faces Russian-occupied territory several kilometres away on the other bank of the Dnipro river, is regularly bombarded by Russian forces.
The market was hit at 9.50 am local time.
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The strike was "yet another war crime committed by the Russian Federation," the prosecutor's office said on Telegram.
Regional governor Oleksandr Ganja said in a Telegram post that three women and two men were killed.
Russia has fired 286 drones overnight, of which 260 were intercepted according to the Ukrainian airforce.
The strikes have hit Ukraine's north, south, east and centre, in at least 10 locations. Eight people are confirmed to have died.
Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has accused Russia of an “Easter escalation”.