'I am still in shock', says survivor of Dnipro mass drone attack

STORY: :: A Russian wide drone onslaught kills respective radical and injures dozens successful Dnipro, says the determination governor

:: April 17, 2025

:: Dnipro, Ukraine

“We heard the drone flying implicit the building, past it each went soundless and past each of a abrupt it fell, causing specified a large noise. It was horrible. I person a drawback container with my documents. We unrecorded connected the 5th floor, truthful we went 1 level down. It was quiescent and past each of a abrupt drones started to onshore 1 aft another. I person nary words to explain, I americium inactive successful shock.”

"I americium an internally displaced idiosyncratic here. I did not get implicit my acquisition determination successful Sloviansk. Every clip I perceive the noise... I cannot usage the hairdryer due to the fact that the sound it makes scares me. I cannot usage the vacuum cleaner either due to the fact that I inactive retrieve the noise. I cannot get implicit it.”

Serhiy Lysak, politician of Dnipropetrovsk region, wrote connected the Telegram messaging app that 30 radical had been injured, including 5 children. Sixteen radical were being treated successful hospital. The onslaught triggered respective fires.

Mayor Borys Filatov said 1 onslaught came wrong 110 yards (100 meters) of the municipal offices. He besides said astatine slightest 15 dwellings had been damaged, arsenic good arsenic a pupil residence, an acquisition instauration and a nutrient processing plant.