This handout photograph released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine on February 1, 2026, shows rescuers in action at the site of an attack in Dnipropetrovsk region. A Russian drone attack on a bus carrying mine workers in Ukraine’s central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region Sunday killed at least 12 people, officials said.
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A Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro hit a bus carrying mineworkers and killed at least a dozen people, Ukrainian authorities said on Sunday (February 1, 2026), hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that the next round of peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations will take place on Wednesday (February 4, 2026) and Thursday (February 5, 2026).
The strike injured several more people and sparked a fire that was subsequently put out, according to the emergency services.
DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, said it owned the bus and accused Russia of carrying out “a large-scale terrorist attack on DTEK mines in the Dnipropetrovsk region,” whose capital is Dnipro.
“The epicentre of one of the attacks was a company bus transporting miners from the enterprise after a shift in the Dnipropetrovsk region,” the company said in a Telegram post.
The strike came days after U.S. President Donald Trump said the Kremlin had agreed to temporarily halt the targeting of the Ukrainian capital and other cities, as the region suffers under freezing temperatures that have brought widespread hardship to Ukrainians.
Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal on Sunday (February 1, 2026) called the strike in Dnipro “a cynical and targeted attack on energy sector workers,” and said it occured near the Ternivska mine east of the city.
Hours earlier, Ukraine’s emergency services reported that Russian attack drones injured six people at a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine, on Sunday (February 1, 2026) morning.
Drones strike Ukrainian maternity hospital
Earlier on Sunday (February 1, 2026), Russian attack drones struck a maternity hospital in southern Ukraine, the Ukrainian emergency service reported.
In a Telegram post, it said the strike wounded three women in the hospital in Zaporizhzhia, and also sparked a fire in the gynecology reception area that was later extinguished. Regional administration head Ivan Fedorov later said the number of injured had risen to six.
Published – February 02, 2026 08:00 am IST
