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Russian Drone and Missile Attacks Kill 16 Across Ukraine

HeadlineApr 27, 2026

In Ukraine, Russian drone and missile attacks killed at least 16 people over the weekend, including nine people killed in Dnipro, where a Russian onslaught sparked fires across the city and partly destroyed several blocks of homes and businesses. Dozens of people were left wounded. This is a 74-year-old resident of Dnipro who narrowly avoided death when his apartment building was bombed.

Anatolii Hetman: “Can you imagine the force of the explosion? It was so loud. I was laying down when the first blast went off. Debris started raining down on me, and the balcony was blown away. I had just grabbed a cigarette and gone into the toilet, and the last blast, it went off right next to me, and everything came crashing down. If I hadn’t gone to the toilet, I don’t know if I’d still be alive.”

Meanwhile, Russian officials say a Ukrainian attack on the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant killed a worker. The International Atomic Energy Agency said it had launched an investigation, and reiterated that such attacks “endanger nuclear safety and must not take place.”

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