The Ukrainian city of Dnipro has endured a prolonged Russian assault lasting more than 20 hours, leaving civilians dead and injured and causing widespread damage to residential areas, officials said.
Emergency services described scenes of heavy destruction following repeated waves of strikes, with apartment blocks and civilian infrastructure among those hit during the combined attack.
Hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles primarily targeted Dnipro but also hit Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Odesa and Kyiv oblasts. Air defences intercepted the majority of incoming weapons, but multiple strikes still landed on civilian areas on Saturday.
In what rescuers called a “one-in-a-million” incident, a Russian Shahed drone reportedly flew directly into the window of a residential apartment but failed to detonate immediately. Officials said the malfunction likely saved the lives of residents inside the building.
The most severe damage was recorded after a nighttime strike on a residential block, where search and rescue teams worked throughout the day amid fears that multiple people may still be trapped beneath the rubble.
Authorities said as many as five people could have been inside the collapsed section of the building at the time of the strike, with recovery efforts continuing under difficult conditions.
By the end of the day, the number of injured in the city had approached fifty, according to local officials, underscoring the scale of the damage across multiple districts.
Residential buildings sustained significant structural damage, while emergency crews carried out evacuations and searched through debris as further strikes elsewhere in the region compounded the strain on rescue operations.
Ukrainian authorities said the attack formed part of an extended wave of Russian strikes targeting civilian areas, with repeated bombardments stretching into daytime hours after the initial overnight assault.
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