A Dnipro railway station drone strike on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, killed at least 14 people when a Russian jet-powered drone hit a crowded platform in central Ukraine, regional officials said. The attack came hours after Ukraine sent more than 600 drones toward Moscow, and days before U.S.-mediated peace talks that Kyiv hopes will begin in Abu Dhabi.
Dnipro railway station drone strike: what happened
Ukraine’s state railway, Ukrzaliznytsia, said the drone struck the platform where train No. 866, bound for Zaporizhzhia, was standing. The company said people were on the platform even though a heightened-danger alert had been announced, according to UNN.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted photos and video from the scene. “A horrific Russian strike on the railway station in Dnipro,” he wrote, adding that the drone hit a platform “where an ordinary commuter train and a scheduled passenger train were standing,” Ukrainska Pravda reported. His first count was 13 dead and 10 injured.
Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, later raised the toll to 14 on Telegram, Interfax-Ukraine reported. Regional officials said 13 people were wounded, four of them gravely, including a child. The head of Dnipro’s Mechnykov Hospital told the public broadcaster Suspilne that several patients had dozens of shrapnel wounds and that some were in surgery.
Zelenskyy links the strike to sanctions
Zelenskyy used the attack to argue against easing pressure on Moscow. “Sanctions against Moscow and its war machine must not be eased for as long as this Russian war continues,” he said. Washington is reviewing a request to lift sanctions on Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, as The Boston Report covered on Oct. 27.
Elsewhere overnight, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said a Russian attack damaged an educational institution in Ukraine’s second-largest city, and Ukrainian officials reported a man killed in the Rivne region, according to Al Jazeera.
Ukraine’s 613-drone attack on Moscow
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Telegram that 613 drones were headed toward the capital between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, and that 231 were destroyed on approach to the city, Reuters reported. Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed it intercepted 1,214 Ukrainian drones across all regions overnight Unverified claim, Russian Defense Ministry (Russian state). Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it “very strange” for Kyiv to target Moscow while the city hosts a summit of more than 22 African leaders, as reported by the state agency TASS Unverified claim, TASS (Russian state media).
Drone debris caused minor damage at an industrial site in Sterlitamak, in Russia’s Bashkortostan region, the local mayor said. Russian news agencies also cited the Defense Ministry as saying its forces hit a cargo vessel used by Ukraine’s military in the Black Sea; Ukraine had not confirmed that claim.
Oleshky ceasefire and next month’s peace talks
The violence unfolded while a separate, local truce held in the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky in the Kherson region. The six-day ceasefire took effect early Tuesday to allow aid deliveries and evacuations, and neither side had reported violations as of Thursday, Reuters reported. Russia’s human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, said she was traveling there with four journalists from the U.S. outlet Newsmax, while Ukraine’s ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, also headed to the area.
Zelenskyy said Wednesday he hoped negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States would meet in Abu Dhabi between Nov. 6 and Nov. 10, and that Kyiv wants Europe included. Earlier this week Russian President Vladimir Putin held a 90-minute call with the leaders of Finland and Norway, which ended without a breakthrough. Ukraine has continued long-range strikes on Russian industry, including a battery plant in Yelets.
Ukrainian authorities had not released the names of the victims by Thursday afternoon in Kyiv. Rescuers, medics and police remained at the station, Ukrzaliznytsia said.
Sources
- UNN: Ukrzaliznytsia details on the Dnipro station strike
- Ukrainska Pravda: Zelenskyy posts photos and video of the Dnipro strike
- Interfax-Ukraine: Death toll rises to 14
- Al Jazeera: At least 13 killed in Russian attack on Dnipro train station
Additional sources
- Reuters via Investing.com: Ukraine sends drones towards Moscow, Russia strikes Kharkiv
- Reuters via Investing.com: Russian official takes U.S. journalists to Oleshky
- Reuters via The Korea Times: Peace negotiators to meet Nov. 6–10, Zelenskyy says
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