Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least six people, officials said Saturday, most of them in an attack on a residential building in the eastern city of Dnipro.
“The Russians’ tactics remain unchanged: attack drones, cruise missiles and a significant amount of ballistic missiles,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
“Most of the targets are ordinary infrastructure in cities. Residential buildings, energy facilities and businesses have been damaged,” he said.
Four people were killed and 27 wounded in one overnight strike on an apartment block in Dnipro, Oleksandr Ganzha, head of Drinpropetrovsk regional military administration said on Telegram.
A later strike on another apartment building in the city, killed one person and wounded seven, he said.
“The Russians hit the same residential neighbourhood as the one targeted overnight,” Ganzha said.
In the southern region of Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed and four wounded by a Russian drone hit on a civilian minibus, the head of the region’s administration, Ivan Fedorov, said on Telegram.
Zelensky said the incessant Russian strikes on civilian targets required a strong response from Ukraine’s allies, especially in Europe.
“Every such strike should serve as a reminder to our partners that the situation requires immediate and firm action, and the rapid strengthening of our air defence,” he said.
– EU sanctions –
He urged the European Union to impose even more sanctions on Russia.
The plea came two days after EU leaders approved a long-stalled 20th sanctions round against Russia that target the banking sector and add new restrictions on exports of Russian oil.
That package had been blocked for months by Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, who was voted from power two weeks ago. The EU also approved a 90-billion-euro ($105 billion) loan to Ukraine intended to strengthen its defences and cover state expenditures for the 2026–2027 period.
Almost every day since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, civilians have been killed in Ukraine in Russian bombardments.
Ukrainian drone attacks over the past 24 hours injured one person in Russia’s Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, governor Alexander Khinshtein announced Saturday on Max.
The governor for Russia’s neighbouring Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said a woman was killed and a man seriously wounded in a drone attack on a car, and a man driving a tractor was wounded in another strike.
Diplomatic efforts to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II are at a standstill with US mediation efforts diverted by the outbreak of the Middle East war in February.
Drone crashes in Romania
A drone crashed in Romania on Saturday after Russian strikes in neighbouring Ukraine near a river separating the two countries, authorities said, adding that over 200 people had been evacuated.
Romania, a NATO member, has repeatedly seen its airspace violated and drone fragments fall on its territory since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
But this was the first time that debris from Russian drones has caused material damage on its territory, according to local media.
“On the morning of Saturday, April 25, Russian forces resumed drone attacks against civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, near the river border with Romania, in Tulcea County,” the defence ministry said in a statement.
“A drone crashed in a populated area,” with a “possible explosive charge,” emergency services said in a separate statement.
No casualties were reported, but an electricity pole and an outbuilding of a house were damaged, authorities said, adding that gas supplies in the area had been cut as a precautionary measure.
Foreign Minister Oana Țoiu summoned the Russian ambassador, a statement said.
In 2025, Romania adopted a law authorising it to shoot down drones that violate its airspace, but no such action has been taken so far.
