Russian Missile Strike on Dnipro Kills Civilians as Nationwide Attacks Reported

A Russian missile strike on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed civilians on Sunday and left rescue crews still searching the site hours later, Ukrainian officials said, as authorities reported a broader wave of attacks across several regions.

The strike hit a private enterprise in Dnipro, according to Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration. Emergency and medical teams were working at the scene, and the wounded were being taken to hospitals. The death toll changed through the day as rescuers continued their work. Hanzha said earlier that four people were killed and 10 wounded. Later, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Telegram post that the strike had killed five people and wounded 29.

Ukrainian authorities also reported other deadly attacks on June 29. In the Zaporizhzhia region, local officials said a Russian drone struck a marshrutka, or passenger minibus, killing two people and wounding six others, including a child. In Nikopol, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said rescuers responding to an earlier strike came under a repeat attack, damaging two fire vehicles. The rescuers were not injured.

Zelensky said Russia also struck the Sumy, Odesa, Chernihiv, Kherson and Kharkiv regions the same day, casting the attacks as another argument for stronger air defenses. In his Telegram post, he said “it is important that in Europe work on its own anti-ballistic defence be as active as possible. Its own systems, missiles.”

The Dnipro strike was the clearest confirmed mass-casualty attack reported by Ukrainian authorities on Sunday, but it was not an isolated incident. Officials described a multi-region barrage stretching across central, southern and northeastern Ukraine. The attack on emergency crews in Nikopol also fit a pattern sometimes described as a “double-tap” strike, in which a second strike hits rescuers after an initial attack — a tactic that has been repeatedly documented during the war.