Russian forces launched several more strikes on Dnipro’s railway station on October 30, a day after an attack that killed 15 people. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, said a fire broke out at the station and a woman was injured.
Ukrzaliznytsia said the evacuation had been announced in advance and that, according to preliminary information, no passengers or railway workers were injured.
Death toll reaches 15
The October 29 strike on the station was carried out by a jet-powered drone against a platform where a Dnipro–Zaporizhzhia train was standing and passengers were waiting for a commuter train. Hanzha said a 40-year-old man who had been injured died in hospital, bringing the death toll to 15.
Eleven injured people remain in Dnipro hospitals, six of them in serious condition, including an 11-year-old boy. Ukrainian media reported that five of those killed were railway workers. Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs called the strike targeted.
Strikes on energy infrastructure
The attacks on Dnipro are taking place amid a new wave of strikes on energy infrastructure by both sides. Power outages were recorded in the city on October 30, while Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had struck energy and military-industrial facilities in the Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk regions. That morning, Ukrainian drones attacked the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in the Samara region.
That same day, it became known that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would visit Istanbul on October 31, where he would hold talks with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the war and security in the Black Sea.