It was a tragic day in eastern Ukraine when a bus full of miners heading home after their shift got hit by a Russian drone. The attack happened in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and sadly, twelve people didn’t make it. At least fifteen others were hurt in the chaos.
This wasn’t the only strike, earlier that night and into the day, at least two more people were killed and nine injured in other Russian attacks. Among the victims were six folks at a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia that got targeted by a drone. Two of them were women in the middle of giving birth when it happened. It’s heartbreaking to think about—a place meant for bringing new life into the world turned into a scene of destruction.
The hospital strike damaged offices, patient rooms, and even a kids’ area, with windows shattered and debris everywhere. Some parts caught fire, and rescuers had to rush in to get people out safely. Luckily, no one died there, but it was close.
In the aftermath of the bus attack in Ternivka, the initial reports thought fifteen had been killed, but it was later confirmed as at least twelve. Over in Dnipro, a man and a woman lost their lives to another drone strike, and a 72-year-old guy was injured in Nikopol. Down in Kherson, a 59-year-old woman got seriously hurt from shelling, and three more people were wounded in Kharkiv.