{"id":3519,"date":"2026-10-30T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:03:44","slug":"russian-strikes-kill-at-least-20-across-ukraine-including-14-in-dnipro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3519","title":{"rendered":"Russian strikes kill at least 20 across Ukraine, including 14 in Dnipro"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Russian drone strike killed at least 14 people on a crowded rail platform in the Ukrainian \u200ccity of Dnipro on Thursday, while five died in daytime strikes on two other provincial cities and a late-evening missile strike killed one person in the capital, Kyiv, officials said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The string of attacks jolted Ukrainian cities as a local truce in the southern region of Kherson raised cautious hopes for a resumption of diplomacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia is deliberately hunting civilians: on trains, at stations, in residential buildings,\u201d \u200bUkrainian Prime Minister Sergiy Koretskyi said on the Telegram app.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no justification for this terror, and there never can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

A new missile attack hit \u200bdistricts of Kyiv just before 11pm, killing one person, the city\u2019s military administration said. Warehouses were set ablaze and \u2060falling debris damaged a building on the east side of the Dnipro River.<\/p>\n

A few hours earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had described the attacks as \u201cvery cruel\u201d and \u201cdeliberate \u200bwhen everyone expects de-escalation steps\u201d.<\/p>\n

Zelenskiy warned that Ukraine had intelligence \u201cabout preparations by the Russians of new ballistic missile strikes. We need the means to take out all \u200bthis Russian evil. We are expecting relevant decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

The six-day truce brokered with US help applied only to southern Ukraine\u2019s Kherson region, where a humanitarian mission was underway to provide relief to the Russian-held town of Oleshky, marooned in a war zone since the start of Moscow\u2019s 2022 invasion.<\/p>\n

Both sides issued virtually identical statements saying de-mining operations had been completed and the operation could begin \u200bto allow aid into the town and permit residents to head out if they wanted to leave.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Russian drone and missile attacks on critical infrastructure, including the rail \u200b<\/a>network, have upended civilian life and ravaged the economy.<\/p>\n

The strikes have exploited an acute shortage of air defence missiles.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Bodies scattered across platform<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In Dnipro, state railway Ukrzaliznytsia said a jet-powered drone \u200chad struck \u2060a platform at the city\u2019s main station, where a commuter train was preparing to depart.<\/p>\n

Mangled bodies lay scattered across the shrapnel-marked pavement, where patches of bright red blood had pooled up. Police filled black body bags amid the wail of an air-raid siren.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd for what? What goal are they (Russians) trying to achieve?\u201d said Svitlana Shcherbak, 67, as she sheltered underground at the station. \u201cI don\u2019t understand it at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another attack on Dnipro hit a student dormitory, setting it ablaze, regional governor Oleksandr Hanzha said. He \u200badded that a day of assaults had \u200bcut power to 350,000 households in \u2060the city.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s mounting bombing campaign against Ukrainian cities has regularly killed civilians. Moscow has denied targeting civilians.<\/p>\n

<\/a>New strikes across Ukraine<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Two teenage girls were killed on a central street in Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, and three people died in strikes on residential \u200bbuildings in the central city of Kremenchuk.<\/p>\n

In Chernihiv, in addition to the two dead teenagers, 23 people, including four children \u200b, were wounded in a \u2060drone attack on a busy downtown street.<\/p>\n

\u201cOrdinary, peaceful people were attacked who were just going to work, going about their daily business, making plans for the day,\u201d said Dmytro Bryzhynskyi, head of the city\u2019s military administration.<\/p>\n

In Kremenchuk, strikes on a residential block and private buildings killed three people and wounded 32, the regional governor said. Russian drones also struck \u2060city buses \u200bin three separate attacks on southeastern Ukraine\u2019s Zaporizhzhia, wounding six, officials there said.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s strikes came amid \u200brenewed efforts to revive US-backed peace talks to end Europe\u2019s deadliest conflict since World War Two.<\/p>\n

New three-way talks are expected to take place next month, with Ukrainian officials, including top presidential adviser Kyrylo Budanov, \u200burging pressure on Moscow from Kyiv\u2019s partners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Russian drone strike killed at least 14 people on a crowded rail platform in the Ukrainian \u200ccity of Dnipro on Thursday, while five died in daytime strikes on two other provincial cities and a late-evening missile strike killed one person in the capital, Kyiv, officials said. The string of attacks jolted Ukrainian cities as a local truce in the southern region of Kherson raised cautious hopes for a resumption of diplomacy. \u201cRussia is deliberately hunting civilians: on trains, at stations, in residential buildings,\u201d \u200bUkrainian Prime Minister Sergiy Koretskyi said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}