Russian Drone Kills 15 at Dnipro Train Station as Strike on Chernihiv Kills Two Teenage Girls * The Gateway Pundit * by Antonio Graceffo

Russian strikes between October 29 and 30 killed at least 27 civilians and injured 127 across Ukraine, according to a Kyiv Independent tally of regional reports. The deadliest attack hit the railway station in Dnipro, where a drone struck a platform as a passenger train prepared to leave for Zaporizhzhia.

Around 11 a.m. on October 29, four Russian jet-powered drones headed for Dnipro, and three were shot down, the Air Force said. The fourth hit the station, and Dnipropetrovsk Governor Oleksandr Hanzha reported at least 15 killed and 14 injured. “The Russians used a drone to attack a platform where a regular commuter train and a regular passenger train were standing,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Four more people, including a 15-year-old girl, were injured elsewhere in the oblast, where a drone recently killed three in Synelnykove. Overnight strikes left about 350,000 residents without electricity, and a drone set a vocational school dormitory on fire.

The same day, a Russian strike on central Chernihiv killed two 15-year-old girls, Yana Peshkova and Mariia Mozhova, who the Kyiv Post reported were both students at Chernihiv Lyceum No. 1. Regional military administration head Viacheslav Chaus said 37 people sought medical help, including five children, and eight remained hospitalized. He reported damage to businesses, homes, schools and vehicles. Elsewhere in the oblast, drones destroyed a House of Culture in Mena and set a residential building on fire in Bobrovytsia.

In Poltava Oblast, a Russian drone hit an apartment building in Kremenchuk, killing three people and injuring 32, including six children. Chernihiv and Kremenchuk both observed a day of mourning on October 30.

In Kyiv, overnight ballistic missile and drone attacks killed one person and injured another. A residential building in the Dniprovskyi district was damaged, and a non-residential building caught fire in the Darnytskyi district. The Air Force said Russia launched ballistic missiles, four guided missiles and 113 Shahed-type drones, 83 of them jet-powered, mainly at Kyiv, Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts. Air defenses downed three missiles and 96 drones. On the evening of October 30, a strike on an energy facility in the capital, where missiles recently hit a Kyiv university, cut power to parts of the Obolonskyi, Darnytskyi, Desnianskyi and Podilskyi districts, DTEK said. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said three drone strikes hit critical infrastructure, leaving the city’s Left Bank without water.

In Kharkiv Oblast, where attacks recently killed five, Governor Oleh Syniehubov reported that Kharkiv city and 13 settlements came under fire, with four people killed in Izium. Of 26 people affected, 14 were in Izium and six in Lozova. Girls aged 5 and 15 were treated for acute stress reactions. Russian forces used three missiles, three glide bombs and 99 drones, damaging a healthcare facility in Izium, enterprises in Kharkiv and Lozova, and railway infrastructure in Berestyn.

Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said shelling on October 29 injured five people in Sloviansk and damaged nine apartment buildings, two private houses, two administrative buildings and six cars there. In Kramatorsk, 11 private houses and a shop were damaged. On October 30, attacks killed two Sloviansk residents and injured 16 people across the oblast. In Sumy Oblast, nine communities came under artillery, mortar, drone and glide bomb attacks, and one person was injured.

In Zaporizhzhia Oblast, regional head Ivan Fedorov reported 792 strikes on 56 settlements, including 20 airstrikes, 624 drones, mostly FPVs, and 143 artillery strikes. Two people were killed and 23 injured, including a child, with 148 reports of damage. In Kherson Oblast, a localized ceasefire for the evacuation of Russian-occupied Oleshky held, with no strikes on civilian or critical infrastructure recorded. One person was injured by a mine.

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry reported 1,590 Russian personnel losses on October 29, bringing the total to about 1,586,500. Ukraine does not publish its own losses. The General Staff said Ukrainian forces struck an Iskander-M launcher near Fatezh in Russia’s Kursk Oblast, along with ammunition depots in occupied Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk oblasts and repair facilities in Luhansk. Ukraine’s Navy said Neptune missiles destroyed two Su-34 fighter-bombers at Marinovka airfield in Russia’s Volgograd region. Zelensky said Ukraine faces a critical shortage of Patriot interceptors.

On October 30, Ukraine’s UN Ambassador Andrii Melnyk requested an emergency Security Council meeting over the Dnipro, Chernihiv and Kremenchuk attacks. The European Commission will disburse €45 billion ($51 billion) in 2027 under its Ukraine Support Loan, with €31.7 billion ($35 billion) for Ukraine’s defense industry. Turkish government spokesman Burhanettin Duran said Zelensky would visit Istanbul on October 31 at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s invitation to discuss Black Sea security and bilateral cooperation.

At the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Atlanta, Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped the photo after European diplomats objected to posing with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski called it “the right decision.”

With winter approaching, Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure threaten to compound the civilian toll by leaving more communities without power, water and heating.