Russian drones struck a main railway station in central Ukraine’s Dnipro on Thursday morning, killing 14 people as they waited to board trains.
A further 10 people were injured in the attack. It was the latest in a series of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s transportation and energy infrastructure, resulting in heavy civilian casualties. Authorities said Thursday that at least 19 people were killed across the country, including two 15-year-old girls.
Russia attacked the Dnipro railway station on Thursday morning, killing 14 people and injuring several others.
Russia attacked the Dnipro railway station on Thursday morning, killing 14 people and injuring several others.
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“These are deliberate attacks on civilians, brazen in their brutality, and the Russian side is doing the right thing as the humanitarian operation in Oreshki unfolds,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told X-Post on Thursday afternoon.
Russia and Ukraine have been monitoring a ceasefire in the southern Kherson region since Tuesday, brokered by first lady Melania Trump, to allow urgently needed humanitarian aid to the Russian-occupied city of Oreshki.
“Russia’s signal is clear: they want the war to continue,” the Ukrainian leader said, urging international allies to put “appropriate pressure on the aggressor.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addressed Mr Zelenskiy, saying she was “heartbroken” by the news of the “senseless and indiscriminate” attack on Dnipro. “Together with our allies, we must do everything in our power to put pressure on the invaders,” she posted on Thursday.
President Zelenskiy earlier described the Dnipro attack as “horrific” and called for further sanctions to deter further Russian attacks.
On Thursday, Russian attacks killed at least 19 people and injured dozens more in three Ukrainian cities.
Earlier this month, U.S. President Donald Trump lifted a series of sanctions related to Russia’s fossil fuel sales, infuriating Kiev, which had long advocated tougher sanctions on Russia’s energy exports.
Russian state media reported on Wednesday that the U.S. government is in talks with the Kremlin to lift sanctions on Russia’s multibillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund, nearly five years after the Biden administration introduced them in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In response, Vladislav Vlasiuk, head of sanctions policy for Ukraine’s president, told CNN: “After lifting sanctions, we cannot expect Russia to take any action. Constructive action should come first, and then everything else should take precedence.”
Thursday’s victims included two 15-year-old girls killed in a Russian attack on the northern city of Chernihiv. Three more people were killed in a Russian drone attack on a house in the Poltava region.
The Russian military is helping civilians gain access to the occupied city of Oreshki as evacuation preparations continue.
Footage from the scene of the Dnipro strike showed several bodies scattered on the platform. The director of the hospital where the injured were taken told local media that many of the injured suffered from shrapnel wounds, and four were undergoing emergency surgery.
The recent increase in Russian attacks coincides with a severe shortage of air defense missiles in Ukraine, where the Russian government has consistently denied targeting civilians.
Russia launched a ballistic missile attack on Ukraine’s capital Kiev on Thursday night, just hours after President Zelenskiy warned that Russia was preparing a new attack on the country, the city’s mayor said.
Also on Thursday, an employee of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) was killed by a drone, the International Atomic Energy Agency condemned the attack.
In his evening speech, Zelenskiy said that the Ukrainian military had carried out missile strikes against two Russian fighter-bombers and an Iskander ballistic missile launcher. Moscow has not yet commented on the allegations.
Russia had made clear that the suspension of fighting around Oreshki, where fighting has trapped thousands of people without power, fresh food and water, would only apply to that area.
Both sides have observed ceasefire conditions, which will continue until 10:59 pm local time on November 1.
