Ahead Of Peace Talks In UAE, Russian Drone Strikes Bus In Ukraine, Kills 12

Last Updated:February 01, 2026, 23:50 IST

A Russian drone hit a DTEK shuttle bus in Dnipropetrovsk, killing 12. Attacks also struck Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro. Zelenskyy announced talks in Abu Dhabi on February 4 and 5.

DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy firm, confirmed that those killed were travelling from one of its mining facilities after they had finished their shift. (AP File)

A Russian drone hit a company shuttle bus in Ukraine’s central-eastern Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday, killing 12 people, region’s governor said.

“The enemy drone hit near a company shuttle bus in the Pavlograd district. Preliminarily, 12 people were killed and seven more were wounded," the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Ganzha, said on Telegram.

AFP quoted police saying that the bus was driving in the vicinity of Ternivka, a town about 65 kilometres from the front line.

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The bus was owned by DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, who confirmed that those killed were travelling from one of its mining facilities after they had finished their shift.

According to AFP, two people were killed and seven injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine overnight and early Sunday.

One of the attacks was a drone strike on a maternity hospital in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia that injured two women undergoing a medical examination.

“Russians have struck a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia," regional governor Ivan Fedorov said in a post on Telegram earlier Sunday. “The number of victims has already increased to six people," he added later.

Hours before this, two “died due to an enemy UAV strike" in the central city of Dnipro, head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Ganzha, said on Telegram.

Earlier on Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on X: The dates for the next trilateral meetings have been set – February 4 and 5 in Abu Dhabi. Ukraine is ready for a substantive discussion, and we are interested in ensuring that the outcome brings us closer to a real and dignified end to the war."

Russia on Friday said it had agreed to US President Donald Trump’s request to halt strikes on Kyiv for a week, till February 1.

Trump said he made the appeal because of the “extreme cold" in Ukraine, while Kremlin officials framed it as a move to support negotiations between the two nations. Neither the US leader nor Russia clarified exactly when the request was made.

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