# Russian drone kills 14 at Ukrainian train station

> A jet-powered drone struck Dnipro's main railway station during a crowded morning, with attacks on Ukraine's rail network accelerating sharply.
- Title: Russian drone kills 14 at Ukrainian train station · BBC News
- Summary: A jet-powered drone struck Dnipro's main railway station during a crowded morning, with attacks on Ukraine's rail network accelerating sharply. A Russian…
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- Source: BBC News — https://bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9p8gdlz1p2ko
- Published: 2026-10-29T12:38:40.832+00:00
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## Drone hits crowded platform
A Russian jet-powered drone struck the main railway station in Dnipro, central Ukraine, killing at least fourteen people and wounding fourteen others, including an eleven-year-old boy.
## Trains at platform when struck
Ukraine's state railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia said a passenger train headed for Zaporizhzhia was at one of the platforms in Dnipro when the drone hit the station.
## Warning came too late
Railway operator chief Oleksandr Pertsovsky said an elevated threat level was announced ahead of Thursday's strike, but a large number of people remained on the platform.

> But unfortunately there were still a large number of people on the platform when the drone struck.
## Attacks spread across Ukraine
Russian strikes also killed two girls aged fifteen in Chernihiv city in the north, and three people in Kremenchuk in the central Poltava region, with dozens more wounded across both cities.
## Rail attacks accelerating sharply
Of five hundred twenty-one locomotives hit since Russia's full-scale invasion in February two thousand twenty-two, almost sixty percent have been hit this year.
## Zelensky calls for more sanctions
President Volodymyr Zelensky called for further US, European and G seven sanctions on Russia, criticising a controversial deal struck earlier this month between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin that eased some sanctions and allowed US…
## Key takeaway

A Russian drone hit Dnipro railway station in central Ukraine, killing at least fourteen people and wounding fourteen others, as attacks on Ukrainian rail infrastructure intensify.