Russian drone attack on Dnipro railway platform kills 13

At least 13 people were killed and 10 wounded on Thursday morning after a Russian drone hit a platform at Dnipro railway station where a train was standing, Ukrainian authorities said. Ukrainian Railways posted on Telegram that the train, numbered 866 and bound for Zaporizhzhia, was on the platform when the jet-powered UAV struck.

The post noted that an alert about an "elevated threat level" had been issued, yet people remained on the platform at the time of the attack.

"Just how many terrorist strikes has Russia carried out against our people since sanctions were lifted on certain Russian oligarchs and the Russian energy sector, rather than de-escalating?" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on X, calling for international action.

"A drone hit a civilian electric train," Dnipro mayor Borys Filatov said on social media, describing the incident as a tragedy.

The strike follows a previous drone attack on a train near the Ukraine-Poland border last month, which occurred shortly after senior officials, including former prime ministers of the United Kingdom and Sweden, passed through the area. Ukrainian state railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia reported that Russian forces have targeted more than 1,700 rail facilities in 2026, including stations, locomotives and passenger wagons, as part of a broader campaign against critical transport infrastructure.