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Russian ‘double tap terror attack’ kills at least 12 Ukrainian miners

'Evil must stop’: Zelenskyy mourns latest Russian attack on miners as he confirms next diplomatic talks in UAE
  • A Russian drone strike in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed at least a dozen mineworkers and injured several others.
  • The attack targeted a bus owned by DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, which was transporting miners after a shift.
  • DTEK condemned the incident as a 'large-scale terrorist attack' on its mines in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
  • The strike also caused a fire, which emergency services subsequently extinguished.
  • This incident occurred days after Donald Trump stated that the Kremlin had agreed to temporarily cease targeting Ukrainian cities.
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