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What happened on 28 July 2023 across the front
Summary
A retrospective on a day of strikes and shelling in Dnipro, Kherson Oblast and Taganrog, set against the preceding days of missile attacks.
What did a single day of the war look like on 28 July 2023? It was a day of strikes on both sides of the border, with civilians injured in Ukraine and in Russia.
In Dnipro, nine civilians were injured in a Russian missile strike that hit a residential complex and a nearby building of the SBU. In Kherson Oblast, a Russian shelling of a residential area in Beryslav Raion injured at least four civilians, according to Governor Oleksandr Prokudin.
Across the border, Russia claimed it had shot down two Ukrainian S-200 missiles. Debris from them injured at least nine civilians in Taganrog, in Rostov Oblast.
The days before
The strikes of 28 July followed a heavy missile attack two days earlier. On 26 July 2023, Russia launched cruise missiles at Kyiv Oblast, Khmelnytskyi Oblast and Kirovohrad Oblast. Air Force Commander Mykola Oleschuk said that 36 targets had been shot down, including three Kalibr and 33 Kh-101/Kh-55 cruise missiles.
On 27 July 2023, far from the front, Kim Jong-un, Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu and a Chinese delegation met in Pyongyang to mark the 70th anniversary of the cessation of hostilities in the Korean War. Kim and Shoigu also attended an exhibition of North Korean ballistic missiles, which have been prohibited by multiple United Nations resolutions endorsed by China and Russia.
Taken together, the reports from those days show a war in which residential areas in Dnipro and Kherson Oblast were hit, and debris from missiles fell on a Russian city, while diplomatic contacts between Moscow and Pyongyang continued.
