Russian Drone Strike on Dnipro Railway Platform Kills 13, Injures at Least 5

A Russian drone strike on a railway platform in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro has killed 13 people and injured at least five others, regional authorities said. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration (OVA), initially reported an attack on a transport infrastructure facility, saying emergency services were working at the scene.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. He later confirmed that 13 people had been killed and at least five injured. Medics are providing assistance to the wounded. State-owned Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian Railways) said a Russian jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) struck a railway station platform where train No. 866, traveling from Dnipro to Zaporizhzhia, was located at the time. Despite an alert warning of heightened danger, people were present on the platform, the railway operator said. Rescuers, medics. and law enforcement officers are working at the scene. Meanwhile, local Telegram channels have already begun sharing photos from the scene. The deadly Russian strike on Dnipro’s railway infrastructure echoes the April 2022 attack on Kramatorsk railway station in eastern Ukraine, where a missile strike killed 61 people and injured more than 160. Around 4,000 civilians had gathered at the station to board evacuation trains as Russian forces advanced. The station was struck at around 10:30 a.m. on April 8 by a Tochka-U missile believed to have been equipped with cluster munitions. Other Topics of Interest Russia Uses North Korean Forced Labor to Sustain War Against Ukraine, Investigation Finds Investigators traced a network placing North Koreans in Russian factories, including military suppliers, while Pyongyang takes much of their wages. The station reopened in October 2022, about six months after the strike. An investigation by the Center for Information Resilience, a nonprofit organization, concluded in October 2022 that the available evidence pointed to Russia as the likely perpetrator. Investigators identified three possible missile launch sites in Russian-occupied territory and said the missile may have been launched from near Shakhtne, east of Donetsk. Russia denied responsibility, claiming it did not possess the type of Tochka-U missile used in the attack and describing the strike as a Ukrainian provocation. Ukrainian prosecutors said they had evidence of Russian responsibility, while the investigation continued. This news story will be updated as more information becomes available. Kyiv Post is Ukraine’s first and oldest English news organization, reporting since 1995. Its international reach – 90% of readers are outside of Ukraine – make it truly Ukraine’s global voice.