<p><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">KYIV: Russian forces targeted the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro overnight with 16 missiles and 20 attack drones, Ukraine’s army said Monday.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; display: block; content: &quot;&quot;; font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);"><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">The attacks on troops and infrastructure were carried out by various types of missiles and Iranian-made Shahed drones, the general staff wrote on Facebook, saying its air defenses had destroyed all the drones and four of the cruise missiles, without giving details.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; display: block; content: &quot;&quot;; font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);"><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">Dnipro is a large city with almost one million inhabitants before the war. It is around 125 kilometers (78 miles) from the current front line.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; display: block; content: &quot;&quot;; font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);"><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">Officials said the scale of the attack was unprecedented.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; display: block; content: &quot;&quot;; font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);"><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">“Today the whole of Dnipro did not sleep. There has not been such shelling since the start of the war,” the city’s mayor Borys Filatov wrote on Telegram messenger.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; display: block; content: &quot;&quot;; font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);"><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">Regional governor Sergiy Lysak wrote on Telegram that Ukraine forces had withstood an attack by “fascists, terrorists and subhumans.” He said that 15 drones had been shot down.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; display: block; content: &quot;&quot;; font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);"><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">He said a 25-year-old man was injured by a missile attack in one district and seven were injured in another district including two women in their 50s and 70s.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; display: block; content: &quot;&quot;; font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);"><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">Ukraine’s emergency service posted footage of fire stations with roofs blown off and fire engines torn apart.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; display: block; content: &quot;&quot;; font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);"><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">It said one of its rescuers was injured, while three of its buildings and more than 20 pieces of equipment were destroyed.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; display: block; content: &quot;&quot;; font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);"><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">Russia’s night-time shelling of Ukraine has increased since the start of May, particularly targeting Kyiv.</span><br style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; display: block; content: &quot;&quot;; font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);"><span style="font-family: &quot;playfair display&quot;, serif, Helvetica, Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(236, 240, 231);">Ukraine says that its air defenses have been able to destroy most of the attack drones and missiles.</span><br></p>