Russia strikes Dnipro train station in central Ukraine, killing 14 Russia strikes Dnipro train station in central Ukraine, killing 14

A Russian drone struck the main railway station in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro as people waited to board a train on Thursday morning, killing 14 people.

Another 10 people were wounded in the strike, the latest in a series of Russian attacks targeting civilian spaces as well as transport and energy infrastructure in Ukraine. At least 19 people including two 15-year-old girls were killed across the country on Thursday, authorities said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described the Dnipro strike as “horrific” and called for more sanctions to deter further Russian attacks.

“Just how many terrorist strikes has Russia carried out against our people since sanctions were lifted on certain Russian oligarchs and the Russian energy sector, rather than de-escalating?” Zelensky wrote in a social media post.

Offering condolences to bereaved families, Zelensky said sanctions “against Moscow and its war machine must not be eased for as long as this Russian war continues.”

US President Donald Trump waived a slate of sanctions related to Russian fossil fuel sales earlier this month, angering Kyiv, which has long advocated for tougher sanctions on Russian energy exports.

Russian state media reported on Wednesday that Washington was in talks with the Kremlin to lift sanctions on Russia’s multibillion-dollar sovereign wealth fund almost five years after they were put in place by the Biden administration following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Zelensky said there were two trains at the station in Dnipro when the drone struck. Footage from the scene shows several bodies strewn across the platform.

The head of the hospital where the wounded were taken told local media many of the injured had suffered shrapnel wounds, and four people were having emergency surgery.

Thursday’s victims included two 15-year-old girls killed in a Russian strike on the northern city of Chernihiv. Another three people were killed by a Russian drone strike on a residential building in the Poltava region.

Elsewhere, in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, Russia and Ukraine have since Tuesday been observing a ceasefire brokered by first lady Melania Trump.

Fighting has paused in the area to allow for the evacuation of the elderly and the vulnerable from Oleshky, where thousands have been trapped by fighting without electricity or fresh food and water supplies. The temporary halt in strikes will also allow critically needed supplies to come in.

Both sides have adhered to the ceasefire conditions, which will remain in place until 10:59 p.m. local time on November 1.