A tragic drone attack in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday has resulted in the deaths of at least 12 individuals. The attack targeted a bus transporting mine workers from one of the region’s mining facilities, located near Ternivka, approximately 65 kilometers from the front line.
Police confirmed that the bus was struck while presumably traveling back after the workers completed their shifts. The country’s largest private energy company, DTEK, reported that those on board the bus were employees returning home after their day’s work.
Images released by Ukraine’s state emergency service depicted an abandoned bus with shattered windows and a damaged windscreen, highlighting the severity of the situation. According to Oleksandr Ganzha, the head of the regional military administration, the drone hit near the company shuttle bus in the Pavlograd district, resulting in the loss of 12 lives and injuries to seven others, who were subsequently hospitalized. Firefighters were deployed to the scene to manage the ensuing blaze.
On the same day, the region experienced an earlier drone strike in the central city of Dnipro, which claimed the lives of a man and a woman. The attacks coincided with the expiration of a unilateral reduction in Russian strikes, announced by US President Donald Trump. Trump had previously indicated that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to halt strikes in Kyiv and various towns during colder weather; however, details of this agreement remained ambiguous, with the Kremlin not linking any ceasefire to the weather conditions.
Furthermore, just prior to the bus attack, a Russian drone also struck a maternity hospital in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, injuring at least seven individuals, including two women undergoing medical examinations. These recent events underline the continued volatility and danger present in the region amid the ongoing conflict.
