At least five killed in Russian drone strike near Ukraine front line

At least seven people also injured in attack near Nikopol in southeastern Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk governor says.

Al JazeeraAl Jazeera Staff2026-09-16 09:32查看原文 ↗

At least seven others have also been injured in an attack near the city of Nikopol in southeastern Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk governor says.

Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a blaze at private homes following a Russian air attack in Sumy, Ukraine, on September 16, 2026 [Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP]

Ukrainian officials say that a Russian drone strike on a bus near the front line in southern Ukraine has killed at least five people and injured seven others.

The attack on Wednesday hit an area around the city of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region governor Oleksandr Hanzha said on the Telegram messaging app.

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Nikopol sits on the opposite bank of the Dnipro river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian troops since the first days of the war.

Photos posted by Ukrainian officials showed windows blown out of a white minibus, with a trail of blood streaming down the side of the vehicle.

“Russians cynically struck a passenger bus. They targeted a minibus which carried people going about their daily business,” said Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk region council.

There was no immediate comment from Russia on the attack.

The number of civilians killed in Ukraine has increased sharply this year , according to the United Nations, amid an escalation in strikes.

At least 1,396 civilians were killed and 7,978 others wounded in Ukraine during the first six months of 2026, according to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, a 37 percent increase from the same period in the previous year.

Meanwhile, at least 250 civilians were killed and 1,596 others injured in Ukrainian attacks inside Russia during the first six months of this year, according to the UN mission, quoting credible Russian open-source reporting – a 121 percent increase in civilian casualties in the country compared with the previous year.

Both Ukraine and Russia deny deliberately targeting civilians in the war that began with Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Elsewhere, an explosion was heard in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Wednesday morning, a witness told the Reuters news agency, while a Russian strike caused a fire at a warehouse there, city authorities said on Telegram.

Russia also attacked energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s central region of Poltava overnight into Wednesday, regional governor Vitalii Diakivnych said, without giving any further details.

A Russian drone also hit an unnamed industrial facility, Diakivnych said on Telegram.

Russia’s Defence Ministry also announced that it had hit a cargo vessel in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Chornomorsk, in the Odesa region.

Meanwhile, one person was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, the region’s acting governor Yegor Kovalchuk said in a statement on Russia’s MAX messenger app.

第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克州州长称，在乌克兰东南部城市尼科波尔附近发生的袭击事件中，至少还有七人受伤。

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乌克兰官员称，俄罗斯无人机袭击了乌克兰南部前线附近的一辆公共汽车，造成至少5人死亡，7人受伤。

第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克州州长奥列克桑德·汉扎在 Telegram 即时通讯应用上表示，周三发生的袭击事件发生在尼科波尔市附近地区。

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乌克兰官员发布的照片显示，一辆白色小巴的窗户被炸碎，车身侧面流淌着血迹。

“俄罗斯人冷酷无情地袭击了一辆客车。他们的目标是一辆载着人们日常出行的巴士，”第聂伯罗彼得罗夫斯克州议会主席米科拉·卢卡舒克说。

俄罗斯方面尚未对此次袭击事件发表评论。

据联合国称，随着空袭升级，今年乌克兰平民死亡人数急剧增加。