On February 1, Russian forces attacked a bus carrying DTEK miners in the town of Ternivka, Pavlohrad district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, using Shahed drones.
Consequences of the strike
At 5:10 p.m., Head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Hanzha reported on social media that an enemy UAV struck near a company service bus in the Pavlohrad district.
According to a DTEK statement released at 5:37 p.m., 15 mine workers were killed in the attack. Seven more people received injuries of varying severity.
In addition to the bus transporting miners after their shift, Russian forces also attacked a coal mining enterprise. Mykhailo Volynets, Head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, reported this. According to him, the Russian army used four Shahed-type drones.
“This is what the so-called ‘energy truce’ looks like – these are negotiations with Moscow ghouls who deliberately and cynically targeted the people sustaining Ukraine’s energy sector during the most difficult heating season in the country’s history,” Volynets wrote on social media.
The strike caused a fire, which Ukraine’s State Emergency Service extinguished. Medical teams hospitalized the injured.
Other Russian Attacks on Ukraine on February 1
In Zaporizhzhia, Russian Shahed drones hit a maternity hospital. Two women were undergoing medical examinations at the time of the attack and sustained injuries. In another strike in the city later that day, three people sustained injuries, including a four-year-old child.
Russia also struck Sloviansk with three aerial bombs, killing one person and injuring another.
During the night of February 1, Russia launched 90 attack UAVs of various types against Ukraine. Ukrainian Air Force reported that they have destroyed 76 of them. In Dnipro, Russia killed two people overnight as a result of a drone strike.
Earlier, The Ukrainian Review reported on an “energy truce” that the Kremlin had agreed to under conditions proposed by Donald Trump until February 1.
