An explosion hit a police station in central Ukraine’s Dnipro on Monday evening, the latest in a series of similar incidents nationwide ahead of the four-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Tuesday.
According to the National Police, the blast struck the police administrative building in Dnipro’s Amur-Nizhnyodniprovskyi district at 8:30 p.m. on Monday.
Authorities reported no casualties but said the blast damaged properties in its vicinity. Details surrounding the blast remain unclear.
“There were no injuries as a result of the incident. The blast wave damaged the windows of the building, furniture, and computer equipment. A car parked next to the building was also damaged,” the Dnipropetrovsk Region Police Communications Department wrote in a press release.
“The investigation into all the circumstances of the incident is ongoing,” it added.
Around two hours earlier, another explosion targeting police officers took place in southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv, injuring seven police officers on Monday and leaving two of them critically wounded.
Just a day prior, two blasts in western Ukraine’s Lviv killed a 23-year-old police officer and injured 25 more people.
National Police chief Ivan Vyhivskyi said the string of explosions are “targeted attack on the law and order system” after the Mykolaiv blast.
“The day before yesterday, a terrorist attack against police officers took place in Lviv. This is not a coincidence. The enemy is purposefully trying to kill Ukrainian police officers,” Vyhivskyi said, echoing President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Sunday warning that authorities are facing a growing campaign targeting law enforcement, which Zelensky attributed to Russia.
Renewed terrorist bombings
While the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has regularly reported bombing attempts against official institutions, the recent series of explosions suggests the campaign is escalating in intensity.
In February 2025, the SBU reported a string of explosions targeting Ukraine’s recruitment centers.
The agency said some attacks were carried out by unsuspecting agents who planted improvised explosive devices (IEDs) for financial reward, with their handlers setting off the bombs remotely as they laid them, blowing them up in the process.
On such attack took place in western Ukraine’s Kamianets-Podilsky on Feb. 5, 2025, which killed one and injured four. On Feb. 2, an attack in Pavlohrad in central Ukraine injured a 24-year-old soldier, with another in western Ukraine’s Rivne the day before killing the suspect in the process while injuring eight soldiers. The SBU also reported a similar attempt in Rivne on Feb. 3.
The SBU also attributed the attacks to Moscow at the time.