Russian armed forces wounded five people in the Dnipropetrovsk region, striking two districts nearly 40 times with drones and artillery.The Nikopol district bore the brunt of the attacks, with the Nikopol, Marhanets, Chervonohryhorivka, and Pokrovske communities coming under fire. The head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Hanzha, confirmed the strikes on his Telegram channel.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.According to Hanzha, a 65-year-old man was left in serious condition, while two other men, aged 59 and 63, were hospitalized with injuries of moderate severity. Additionally, two more men, aged 59 and 56, are being treated on an outpatient basis.In the Synelnykove district, the Pokrovske community was struck, sparking fires and damaging a private home. No casualties were reported from the attack.Part of a broader pattern of strikesThe attack came during a broader wave of Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight into July 21, when Russian forces launched 58 attack drones nationwide, with Ukraine’s air defenses downing or suppressing 46 of them.Separately, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported that Russian forces struck rescuers while they were extinguishing a fire in a residential building in the Nikopol district, wounding three firefighters.The Dnipropetrovsk region, and Nikopol in particular, has continued to face near-daily Russian bombardment since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, with attack counts frequently reaching 40 to 70 strikes in a single day.