Russian drone strike kills 12 mine employees in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area, injuring seven others.
Printed On 1 Feb 2026
A minimum of 12 individuals have been killed in a Russian drone assault on a bus carrying miners in Ukraine’s southeastern Dnipropetrovsk area, the nation’s vitality minister stated.
“At the moment, the enemy carried out a cynical and focused assault on vitality sector employees within the Dnipro area,” Minister of Vitality Denys Shmyhal posted on Telegram on Sunday.
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“Because of the terrorist assault, 12 mine employees had been killed and 7 extra had been injured.”
Police stated the assault happened within the metropolis of Ternivka. Footage posted by the State Emergencies Service confirmed a charred bus with shattered home windows that had veered off the street.
Vitality agency DTEK stated in a press release that the killed and wounded had been its staff getting back from a shift.
Earlier on Sunday, regional officers stated at the very least 9 individuals had been wounded in Russian strikes on a maternity hospital and a residential constructing within the southeastern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia.
The assaults come days after United States President Donald Trump stated Russian President Vladimir Putin had agreed to briefly halt the concentrating on of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv and different cities, amid freezing temperatures which have introduced widespread hardship to Ukrainians.
The Kremlin confirmed on Friday that it agreed to droop assaults on Kyiv till Sunday, however didn’t reveal any additional particulars.
Russia and Ukraine held trilateral talks with the US within the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, final month and are anticipated to fulfill for a second spherical this month, amid ongoing US strain to finish their practically four-year battle.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Sunday that the second round of talks would take place in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday and Thursday.
Whereas Ukrainian and Russian officers have agreed in precept with Washington’s calls for for a compromise, Moscow and Kyiv differ deeply over what an settlement ought to seem like.
A central concern is whether or not Russia ought to hold or withdraw from areas of Ukraine its forces have occupied, particularly Ukraine’s japanese industrial heartland referred to as the Donbas, and whether or not it ought to get land there that it has not but captured.
