The home of a Chabad emissary in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was damaged during a recent Russian attack, and his son was injured by flying glass. Members of the local Jewish community described the blast as enormous, saying shrapnel and debris from intercepted projectiles struck the building directly. They said it was a great miracle that the child’s injuries were not more serious.

The emissary, considered a central figure in Dnipro’s Jewish community, operates under the city’s chief rabbi and leads one of the largest Jewish centers in the world, the Menorah Center. Since the start of the war, he has played a key role in supporting thousands of Jewish refugees who fled fighting in eastern Ukraine, coordinating extensive humanitarian aid efforts across the region.