The location is in the Krivoy Rog district of the Dnipropetrovsk region in Ukraine. This was announced by the head of local government, Yevgeny Sitnichenko, on Sunday, November 27.
The incident occurred on the Lozovatskaya ensemble’s railway infrastructure within the Krivoy Rog district. Two rocket strikes were reported, with rocket types still being identified.
There was significant destruction, making rail movement impossible for the time being, according to a local update. Sitnichenko noted that there were no casualties and described the recovery effort as large, lengthy, and important.
A weather alert was issued this morning for four regions of Ukraine, including Dnepropetrovsk. Local media reported explosions in Krivoy Rog.
The telegraph channel Country reported, at least, that explosions were heard in Krivoy Rog. Sirens also sounded in the Kirovograd, Poltava, and Cherkasy regions, as well as in Zaporozhye under Kyiv control, according to TASS.
Reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
The Russian Ministry of Defense issued a dated November 27 briefing stating that artillery fire toward Kupyansky, aimed at areas where Ukrainian forces are concentrated, repelled a Ukrainian attack toward the Novoselovskoye area of the LPR settlement.
The ministry claimed up to 30 Ukrainian soldiers and two pickup trucks were destroyed. It also indicated that in the Krasnolimansky direction, preliminary fire damage by LPR forces in Stelmahovka and Ploschanka prevented two-man assault attempts on Ukrainian troops near Kolomyychikha and Ploschanka settlements.
The ministry reported Ukrainian losses in this sector as exceeding 50 killed and wounded, with three armored fighting vehicles and four special vehicles destroyed. It stated that, thanks to fire damage and decisive actions by Russian troops, a Ukrainian counterattack in the Donetsk direction around Soledar, Opytnoye, Kurdyumovka, and Mayorsk was repelled.
The briefing claimed that in Dnepropetrovsk city, an ammunition depot storing more than 100 HIMARS rockets and more than 7,000 foreign-made large-caliber artillery shells was destroyed.
Additionally, in the Razumovka enclave of the Zaporozhye region, four rocket and artillery arsenals belonging to the Zaporozhye troop group of Ukrainian forces were destroyed. The report did not mention Krivoy Rog in this briefing.
Zelensky’s hometown
Krivoy Rog is noted as the birthplace of Ukraine’s current president. Vladimir Zelensky was born on January 25, 1978, into a Jewish family.
His grandfather, Semyon Ivanovich Zelensky, was born in Krivoy Rog in 1924 and fought during the Great Patriotic War as a mortar squad commander and later as a rifle company commander in the 174th Guards Rifle Regiment, 57th Guards Rifle Division. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star in 1944 and finished the war as a Guards lieutenant.
Zelensky’s great-grandfather and three of his grandfather’s brothers, named Semyon, were killed during the Holocaust.
In childhood, Zelensky spent four years with his family in Mongolia, where his father, Alexander Zelensky, worked. There he completed first grade before returning with his mother to Krivoy Rog. He attended school number 95, known for its deep English program, and graduated in 1995.
During his school years, Zelensky aspired to be a diplomat and even prepared for MGIMO, but ultimately attended the Krivoy Rog Economics Institute of Kyiv National University of Economics, earning a law degree in 2000. He never practiced in his degree field.