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Two strikes that showed war's widening reach
Summary
A look back at 2 April 2024, when missiles hit Dnipro and Ukrainian airstrikes reached deep into Russian territory.
What did the war look like on the ground and far from the front line on 2 April 2024? A retrospective view of 3 April 2024 shows two events from the previous day that pointed in opposite directions, yet belonged to the same conflict.
In Dnipro, a Russian missile strike injured eighteen people, five of them children. The city, far from the front line, remained within range of Russian missiles.
On the same day, Ukraine launched airstrikes more than 1,000 kilometres inside Russia. The targets were an oil refinery and the dormitory of a factory producing Iranian-designed Shahed drones in Yelabuga, Tatarstan. Several people were injured.
Two sides of the same pattern
The juxtaposition is instructive. Russia struck a Ukrainian city and injured civilians, including children. Ukraine, for its part, reached industrial sites linked to drone production and fuel refining at a distance of more than 1,000 kilometres.
The Yelabuga strike was notable for its range and for the nature of the targets, which were tied to Shahed drones. The Dnipro strike, by contrast, left a toll counted in injured civilians.
