A Russian drone struck a freight train in the Dnipropetrovsk region while it was moving, hitting an electric locomotive and injuring two railway workers (the driver and his assistant).
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The enemy attacked the railway infrastructure of the Dnipro region. While a freight train was moving, a UAV hit the electric locomotive. The driver and his assistant were injured.
Russian troops attacked Dnipropetrovsk Oblast almost 40 times on 5 March using drones, artillery and an aerial bomb, leaving two people injured.
In the Nikopol district, the city of Nikopol came under fire as well as the Myrivka, Pokrovsk, Marhanets and Chervonohryhorivka hromadas.
Damage was caused to transport infrastructure, almost two dozen houses and outbuildings, four apartment buildings, an agricultural business and vehicles.
Two men aged 41 and 70 were injured. One of them was taken to hospital in a moderate condition.
Transport infrastructure was also damaged in the settlement of Verkhivtseve in the Kamianske district.
A block of flats was damaged in the Mezhova hromada in the Synelnykove district.
In central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Russia attacked four districts of the region with artillery, drones, and guided aerial bombs (KABs), regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported on March 5.
Ukrainian soldiers also struck enemy troop concentrations in the vicinity of Berezove in the Dnipropetrovsk region
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