A major overnight Russian attack on Ukraine has damaged the Dnipro newsroom of the country’s public broadcaster Suspilne and killed a 17-year-old girl in the Kharkiv region, Ukrainian officials have reported.
Suspilne said a building in the eastern city of Dnipro housing its regional editorial office and Ukrainian Radio Dnipro was struck during a drone attack late on Monday, part of a wider assault on the Dnipropetrovsk region. The incident formed part of a new wave of strikes across the country as the war nears its fifth year.
According to the broadcaster, the strike triggered a fire, blew out windows and doors and damaged several floors and the roof of the structure. Images published by Suspilne showed a large breach running through multiple levels of the concrete building, with exposed reinforcing bars, collapsed ceiling panels and debris scattered inside newsrooms and corridors.
No media staff were reported inside the premises at the time of the hit. Regional acting governor Vladyslav Haivanenko said Russian drones “pounded” the Dnipropetrovsk region late on Monday, injuring two people, sparking fires and damaging apartment blocks and other civilian infrastructure in the city. Emergency services worked through the night to extinguish blazes and clear rubble.
Suspilne, Ukraine’s nationwide public broadcaster, operates a network of regional television, radio and digital newsrooms across the country. The Dnipro office serves one of Ukraine’s largest industrial cities and surrounding communities in Dnipropetrovsk region, providing regional news, public service programming and emergency information. The outlet’s Dnipro facilities were also damaged in a Russian strike in September 2024, part of a previous series of attacks on media and communications infrastructure.
Dnipro and the wider region have been repeatedly targeted by Russian missile and drone strikes since the start of the full-scale invasion, with residential areas, industrial facilities and energy infrastructure hit on multiple occasions in recent months. These attacks have caused recurring civilian casualties and disruptions to electricity supplies and other basic services.
In a separate incident on Tuesday in the Kharkiv region, a 17-year-old girl died after being wounded in a missile strike on the town of Berestyn, regional governor Oleh Syniehubov said. According to the official, the teenager succumbed to her injuries in hospital following the overnight attack, which injured nine other people. Seven of the injured were reported to be receiving in-patient treatment with blast injuries, and a 16-year-old boy was among those hurt.
Regional authorities said the strike damaged residential buildings and other civilian structures in the town. Medical teams and emergency services were deployed to evacuate the wounded, provide treatment and assess structural damage at the scene. The Berestyn attack followed earlier missile and drone strikes on other parts of Kharkiv region in recent days, including the city of Balakliia, where three people were reported killed and 10 injured in a separate overnight strike.
Kharkiv and its surrounding region, which border the Russian Federation, have come under sustained fire throughout the conflict. Russian forces have used missiles, glide bombs, drones and artillery to hit residential districts, industrial facilities and public infrastructure, while Ukrainian officials have reported repeated damage to housing and power networks. Air-raid alerts remain frequent, and local authorities have periodically reported extended power cuts after strikes on energy facilities.
