Four killed and 21 injured in Russian drone strike on Ukrainian city of Dnipro

Four people were killed and 21 injured in a Russian drone strike on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday night, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported on Saturday.

Posting photographs of the damage caused by the attack, which was reported at around 10:45pm on Friday, Dnipro Governor Serhiy Lysak wrote on his Telegram channel that “houses and streets where life was in full swing now look like this”.

Several high-rise buildings were struck in the attack, Lysak wrote, while footage posted on social media in the hours following the attack appeared to show a major fire at the Bartolomeo Resort Hotel, located on the Dnipro River.

The Russian Defence Ministry has not yet commented on the attack, which Kyiv said was carried out using Iranian-made Shahed drones, which Russia has repeatedly used for large-scale strikes on Ukrainian cities throughout the war.

Moscow and Kyiv both pledged to respect an energy infrastructure ceasefire on Tuesday following US-brokered talks in Riyadh. The agreement was reached after the Kremlin stopped short of agreeing to the full 30-day ceasefire that was being floated by Washington and to which Kyiv had already signed up during talks with the US in Jeddah earlier this month.

Nevertheless, both sides have since then repeatedly accused the other of violating the energy infrastructure ceasefire, most recently after the Sudzha gas metering station, in the Ukrainian-controlled pocket of Russia’s Kursk region, came under attack for the second time in a week on Friday.