💥 Attack

Russian forces struck a dam on the Inhulets River at Kryvyi Rih using a Tu-95MS bomber firing X-101 cruise missiles, causing flooding downstream.

September 14, 2022 Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk

Verified Independently confirmed by 5 sources

Stefan Korshak (Substack) Ukrainska Pravda Kyiv Independent UNIAN Censor.NET

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Source Reports

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Stefan Korshak (Substack) → Source tone: likely

Russian forces struck a dam on the Inhulets River at Kryvyi Rih using a Tu-95MS bomber firing X-101 cruise missiles, causing flooding downstream.

Ukrainska Pravda → Source tone: certain

Russian forces fired 75 projectiles on the Nikopol District three times overnight on September 13-14, 2022.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: certain

A Russian missile strike on September 14 hit the local dam in Kryvyi Rih, flooding over 100 homes.

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih hydraulic structures resulted in water leak of 100 cubic meters per second.

UNIAN → Source tone: certain

The attack caused significant damage to critical infrastructure, with several districts temporarily losing water supply.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

Russian occupiers attacked hydraulic structures in Kryvy Rih with 8 cruise missiles.

Censor.NET → Source tone: certain

Water levels in the Inhulets River rose from 1 to almost 2 meters due to the attack, and have since dropped by 40 centimeters.

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Extracted: 2026-05-30T04:15:31.030Z

Source story: day-203a-2023-02-13