At least 13 people were killed and more than a dozen wounded when a Russian drone slammed into a train platform in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday morning.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said the strike hit a platform at Dnipro station where two trains were waiting. In a post on social media, he shared images of bodies on the platform and emergency workers at the scene. The regional military administration said that an additional 13 people were hospitalized with injuries, including four in serious condition.
Ukraine’s railway operator said that an air-raid alarm had sounded but that people were still on the platform where Train No. 866 from Dnipro to Zaporizhzhia was standing when a jet-powered drone hit.
The new breed of jet-powered drones has proved much harder for Ukraine’s already stretched air defenses to intercept. Ukraine’s air force said the drone that struck the platform was one of four that Russia had launched in the area around 11 a.m. The other three, it said in a statement, were shot down.
The deadly strike was a grim reminder that despite a rare local cease-fire around the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky, communities around Ukraine and along the 600-mile front line remained under Russian fire.
Russian state media, meanwhile, reported on Thursday that more than 600 drones had targeted Moscow and the surrounding area in what it said was one of the largest overnight Ukrainian assaults this year.
Valerie Hopkins and Nataliia Novosolova contributed reporting.
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