{"id":2971,"date":"2026-04-04T11:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/2971\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:34:26","slug":"russia-attacks-ukraine-with-drones-5-killed-19-injured-as-strikes-hit-nikopol-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/2971\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia attacks Ukraine with drones: 5 killed, 19 injured as strikes hit Nikopol market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1280720-2026-04-04t145228558.jpg\" alt=\"Russia attacks Ukraine with drones: 5 killed, 19 injured as strikes hit Nikopol market\" title=\"Picture source: X\/Kyiv Independednt\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Picture source: X\/Kyiv Independednt At least five people were killed and 19 others injured after a Russian drone strike hit a <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/market\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">market<\/a> in the frontline Ukrainian city of Nikopol on Saturday morning, Ukraine\u2019s prosecutor general\u2019s office said.Earlier, regional governor Oleksandr Ganja said in a Telegram post that three women and two men were killed. A 14-year-old girl was among 19 wounded and was in a critical condition, he added.\u201cThis is yet another war crime committed by the Russian Federation,\u201d the prosecutor\u2019s office said in a post on Telegram.  <\/p>\n<p> Watch<\/p>\n<p> \u2018Hormuz Shipping Will Resume Only If\u2026\u2019: Russia Warns Trump As Iran Military Downs US Fighter Jet Nikopol, which lies close to Russian-occupied territory across the Dnipro river, has been regularly targeted in attacks.Russia has been carrying out regular strikes on Ukraine since its 2022 invasion, mostly at night, but in recent weeks, it has increased attacks during the day.Meanwhile, Russian night-time strikes on Ukraine left 14 people injured, while air attacks in Russia killed one person and injured four others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Picture source: X\/Kyiv Independednt At least five people were killed and 19 others injured after a Russian drone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1357,2358,2357,1731,5,25],"class_list":{"0":"post-2971","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-attack","9":"tag-killed","10":"tag-market","11":"tag-nikopol","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/russia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}