Russian drone attack kills 15 in Dnipro amid Russia-Ukraine peace talks | World News

A Russian drone strike hit a bus of mine workers in Dnipro, Ukraine, killing 15 people, emergency officials said Sunday, just after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced new Russia-Ukraine peace talks to be held Wednesday and Thursday.

According to Ukrainian emergency services, the drone attack injured seven more people and sparked a fire that firefighters later extinguished.

DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy company and the owner of the bus, blamed Russia for “a major terrorist attack on DTEK mines in the Dnipropetrovsk region,” where Dnipro serves as the capital, according to a report by the AP.

“A company bus transporting miners at a Dnipropetrovsk region operation after their shift was the epicenter of an attack,” the company said in a post on Telegram, according to the AP.

The strike came just days after US President Donald Trump announced that the Kremlin had agreed to halt attacks on Kiev and other cities; Ukraine is enduring freezing temperatures, causing widespread power outages and hardship.

Ukrainian Energy Minister Denys Shmyhal condemned Sunday’s Dnipro strike as a “cynical, targeted attack on energy workers” and noted that the strike took place near the Ternivska mine in the east of the city.

Early that morning, Ukraine’s emergency services reported that Russian drones had injured six people at the southern Zaporozhye maternity hospital.

The attacks took place amid ongoing peace talks between the two countries. Envoys from Russia, Ukraine and the United States were due to resume talks in Abu Dhabi on Sunday to stop Moscow’s all-out invasion of Ukraine, but Zelenskyy announced the meeting was postponed until next week.

Earlier this week, US President Donald Trump told a cabinet meeting: “I personally asked President Putin not to launch attacks on Kiev and various towns for a week, and he agreed.” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the request, which aims to “create favorable conditions for negotiations” amid Russia’s attacks on the energy grid.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy challenged Putin to visit Kiev on Friday, warning that if Russia stopped attacks on its energy infrastructure, Ukraine would strike back, causing the capital to freeze without a formal ceasefire.

While trilateral talks involving Russia, Ukraine and the United States, mediated by the United States, started in Abu Dhabi on January 23-24, 2026, with the mediation of the UAE on territorial issues, security and political paths, no major progress has been made yet.