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Dnipro is the administrative centre of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. It hosts the administration of Dnipro urban hromada. [9] Dnipro has a population of 968,502 (2022 estimate). [10] Archeological evidence suggests the site of the present city was settled by Cossack communities from at least 1524.
Dnipro also formerly dominated in the aerospace industry since the 1950s: engineering department Yuzhnoye Design Bureau and construction at Pivdenmash. Pivdenmash , the former Yuzhmash , is a manufacturer of space rockets , agricultural equipment , buses , trolley buses , trams , wind turbines , and satellites that was inherited from the Soviet ...
The Mayor of Dnipro, Borys Filatov has dismissed suggestions that the group remained Ihor Kolomoyskyi's "private army". Kolomoyskyi has helped with some equipment purchases, but the force performs defence and law and order functions under the leadership of the national police. [120] Dnipro city after Russian shelling in the night on 29 ...
Dnipro, the fourth-largest city in Ukraine, is an important center of life in the eastern part of the country. It is relatively close to the front lines, yet still fairly well protected by air ...
On 9 March Dnipro was also hit during a nationwide Russian missile strike. [71] [72] According to the Dnipro City Council dozens of buildings were damaged by blast waves and in more than 120 apartments windows were broken. [71] Fragments of a rocket were scattered almost all over the terrain of yacht club Sich. [71] No casualties were reported ...
On 18 July 2020, as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, the number of raions of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast was reduced to seven, and the area of Dnipro Raion was significantly expanded. Three abolished raions, Petrykivka, Solone, and Tsarychanka Raions, as well as Dnipro Municipality, were merged into Dnipro Raion.
The strike was part of months-long campaign of Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure that also had hit Dnipro. This strike was the deadliest Russian attack on a residential building in Ukraine in the previous six months. [10] three days of mourning was declared in Dnipro. [11]
The killings occurred on 27 January 2022, at about 3:40 a.m. in the city of Dnipro, as guards began handing out weapons to the servicemen at Pivdenmash factory. [3] A National Guard of Ukraine conscript armed with a reported AK-47 assault rifle [4] [1] shot dead four male servicemen and one civilian woman, [a] and wounded five others.