Dnipro Station Toll Rises to 15 as Blackout Hits City and Ukraine Says It Destroyed Two Su-34s

The death toll from Russia’s October 29 drone strike on the railway station in Dnipro rose to 15 on Thursday night, and hours later a fresh wave of Russian missiles and drones plunged the same city into a near-total blackout. Eleven people remained in hospital, six in serious condition, including an 11-year-old boy, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast head Oleksandr Hanzha said, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Our first report on the Dnipro railway station strike gave the earlier count of 13.

Key figures: 15 dead in the dnipro station strike, up from 13 · 350,000+ customers who lost power in and near dnipro · 113 russian drones launched overnight; 96 downed

Why it matters: the attacks on Dnipro show Russia pressing both civilians and the power grid as winter nears, even as a small local ceasefire in occupied Oleshky held long enough for aid to arrive, and as Ukraine reached deep into Russia with missiles and drones.

A city goes dark

Overnight strikes cut electricity to more than 350,000 customers in Dnipro and nearby settlements, Hanzha said. By morning, emergency power cuts had left the city almost entirely dark and most electric public transport had stopped, Mayor Borys Filatov and the energy company DTEK said, according to Ukrainska Pravda. Across Ukraine, regional officials reported at least 27 people killed and 127 injured over the past day, the Kyiv Independent tallied.

The broader attack was large. Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia fired ballistic missiles from the Voronezh, Kursk and Bryansk regions, four Kh-59/69 guided missiles and 113 drones, 83 of them jet-powered Shaheds, Ukrainska Pravda reported. It said 96 drones and three of the guided missiles were downed or jammed, with hits recorded at 17 locations. In Kyiv, one person was killed in the Dniprovskyi district, officials said, and in Kharkiv a jet-powered drone hit a shopping center and injured four women, according to the regional governor.

The toll from earlier strikes also grew. In Chernihiv, two 15-year-old girls were killed and 31 people were injured, including a baby, Ukrainska Pravda reported. In Kremenchuk, a drone strike on an apartment building killed three people and injured 15, including three children, officials said. President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia is planning more ballistic missile strikes, Ukrainska Pravda reported.

Ukraine hits back inside Russia

Ukraine’s Navy said a Long Neptune missile struck the Marinovka air base near Oktyabrsky in Russia’s Volgograd region on October 29 and destroyed two Su-34 bombers, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Overnight, a fire broke out at the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in Samara after a suspected drone attack, according to local footage that could not be verified, the Kyiv Independent reported; Samara’s governor said only that air defenses were repelling an attack.

Moscow felt the war too. Russia’s aviation authority shut all of the capital’s airports during a drone attack, and Mayor Sergei Sobyanin claimed 862 drones were destroyed over the Moscow region between the evening of October 29 and the next morning, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Ukraine did not confirm that figure, and it is labeled here as a Russian government claim.

A fragile pause in Oleshky

Against that backdrop, one small corner of the front was quiet. The local ceasefire around occupied Oleshky passed 75 hours without a violation, Ukraine’s human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said, while 25 buses with room for more than 750 people waited in Armiansk. “Neither side has violated the ceasefire even once,” Lubinets said. On October 30, lawmaker Davyd Arakhamia said aid was being handed out and evacuations were underway, Ukrainska Pravda reported. A volunteer claimed Russia had moved some residents before the agreed date, a claim the Kyiv Independent reported but did not confirm.

Talk of talks

On diplomacy, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Vladimir Putin would take calls from French President Emmanuel Macron or German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Asked about Zelensky, he said, “No one has called yet,” Ukrainska Pravda reported. Zelensky’s adviser Dmytro Lytvyn replied that what matters is “an actual meeting,” not a phone call. Putin, for his part, said the Finnish and Norwegian leaders “did the right thing” by calling him, according to Ukrainska Pravda, a follow-up to our report on Putin’s call with Finland’s Stubb.

Allies are watching the supply line. NATO officials fear the United States will not deliver more Patriot interceptors to Ukraine before the US midterm elections, Euronews reported, citing NATO sources. Britain and Germany will convene the next Ramstein-format meeting on November 17 in Brussels, Ukrainska Pravda reported, and the European Commission has opened 21.3 billion euros in SAFE defense loans to bids.

By the numbers

Ukraine’s air defenses stopped 85% of the drones Russia launched overnight (96 of 113) and three of four guided missiles, a TBR calculation from Air Force figures; the Air Force gave no count for ballistic missiles. The Dnipro station toll rose by two, or 15%, from the 13 reported a day earlier. Ukraine’s General Staff said Russian losses in October passed 49,000, which it called a monthly record, Ukrainska Pravda reported; those figures are not independently verified.

What comes next

The economic strain is showing: Ukraine’s National Bank now expects GDP to shrink 0.4% in 2026, down from an earlier forecast of 1.8% growth. Watch how many people leave Oleshky and whether the ceasefire holds afterward, how fast Dnipro’s power returns, and whether Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov holds meetings at the G20 in Atlanta. Today’s Iran war story covers the other half of the Pentagon leak case.

Sources

• Ukrainska Pravda: Death toll from Russian attack on train station in Dnipro rises to 15
• Ukrainska Pravda: Over 350,000 consumers left without power after Russian attacks on Dnipro and nearby settlements
• Ukrainska Pravda: Dnipro hit by near-total blackout: most electric-powered public transport stops as emergency power cuts imposed
• The Kyiv Independent: Russian attacks across Ukraine kill 27, injure 127 over past day as 'horrific attack' strikes Dnipro train station
• Ukrainska Pravda: Russia launches missiles and 113 drones at Ukraine; air defences down three Kh-59/69 missiles and 96 drones
• Ukrainska Pravda: One person killed and one injured in overnight Russian attack on Kyiv
• Ukrainska Pravda: Jet-powered drone hits shopping centre in Kharkiv, four women injured
• Ukrainska Pravda: Two 15-year-old girls killed and 31 people injured, including baby, in Russian attack on central Chernihiv
• Ukrainska Pravda: Russian drone hits apartment building in Kremenchuk: three killed and 15 injured, including three children
• President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainska Pravda: Zelenskyy: Russians planning further ballistic missile strikes
• Ukrainska Pravda: Ukrainian defence forces destroy two Russian Su-34 fighter jets with Neptune missiles at Russian airfield
• The Kyiv Independent: Ukraine reportedly strikes Russian oil refinery in Samara
• Ukrainska Pravda: All Moscow airports shut amid drone attack on Russian capital
• Ukraine's human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets, Ukrainska Pravda: Over 75 hours of ceasefire: Ukraine's human rights commissioner arrives in Armiansk, 25 buses ready for evacuation from Oleshky
• Ukrainska Pravda: Ukrainian MP: Humanitarian aid being distributed in Oleshky, evacuation underway
• The Kyiv Independent: Oleshky evacuation begins but volunteer claims Russia already moved people outside of agreed terms
• Ukrainska Pravda: Kremlin says Putin willing to speak with Merz and Macron, claims Zelenskyy has not called
• Presidential adviser Dmytro Lytvyn, Ukrainska Pravda: Meeting is what matters: Zelenskyy's office responds to idea of phone call with Kremlin
• Vladimir Putin, Ukrainska Pravda: Putin says Finnish and Norwegian leaders 'did the right thing' by calling him
• Ukrainska Pravda: NATO fears Trump will not supply interceptors to Ukraine before US elections – Euronews
• Ukrainska Pravda: NATO announces new Ramstein meeting on Ukraine's defence
• Ukrainska Pravda: Ukraine's General Staff reports record Russian losses of over 49,000 in October
• Ukrainska Pravda: Ukraine's economy enters recession: National Bank forecasts 0.4% fall in GDP

Additional sources

• Ukrainska Pravda: EU's chief diplomat urges accountability after Dnipro strike
• Kyiv Independent: EU frees up over 20 billion euros for defense
• Kyiv Independent: drone attack reportedly kills worker at Zaporizhzhia plant
• Kyiv Independent: seven Russian tankers shipping diesel to US identified