A Russian drone struck a train platform in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro region on Thursday, killing at least 14 civilians, according to Ukrainian officials, as Ukrainian forces fired more than 1,200 drones toward Russia.
Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s state railway company, said a jet-powered drone hit the platform as commuters waited to board a train. The Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its forces bombed “transport infrastructure facilities used by the Ukrainian army” in its attacks on Thursday but didn’t take credit for the strike in Dnipro,
Reuters reported that five other people were killed in other Russian attacks, including two teenage girls who were killed in the northern Chernihiv region, and three who were killed in the central city of Kremenchuk.
The Russian Defense Ministry also said on Thursday that its forces downed 1,214 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions overnight. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that “231 drones were destroyed on approach to Moscow,” and according to Russia’s TASS news agency, it marked one of the largest attempted attacks on the Russian city of the year.
Initially, no fatalities were reported in the Ukrainian drone swarm, but later in the day, local authorities said a Ukrainian attack killed a woman in Russia’s Belgorod region.
The heavy attacks come as a local ceasefire around the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region continues to hold. The truce, which began on Tuesday and is expected to last six days, aims to deliver humanitarian aid to the town’s 2,000 remaining residents and allow anyone who wants to leave to evacuate.
