Two Dead in Sumy Region as Russia Targets Dnipro Infrastructure in Nighttime Raid

Russian forces launched a fresh wave of aerial attacks across Ukraine from Saturday night into the early hours of Sunday, April 26, killing two civilians in the Sumy region and striking infrastructure in Dnipro.

In the Bilopillia community of the Sumy region, a Russian drone strike targeted two men located less than 5 km from the state border. Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, confirmed that a 48-year-old and a 72-year-old man were killed in the attack.

Meanwhile, in Dnipro, which has faced near-constant bombardment over the last 24 hours, a drone strike ignited a fire at an infrastructure facility late Saturday night. Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, reported that emergency services were deployed to the site and that, according to preliminary data, there were no casualties in this specific incident.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that between 6 p.m. on April 25 and 8 a.m. this morning, Russia launched 144 strike UAVs, including Shahed-type drones and other models like the Gerbera and Italmas. Ukrainian air defenses successfully intercepted or suppressed 124 targets using aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, and electronic warfare units.

However, 19 drones struck 11 separate locations across the country, while falling debris was recorded at six other sites.

This latest escalation follows a major coordinated campaign on Saturday that utilized 666 missiles and drones, leaving at least eight people dead nationwide.

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Ukraine launched a major long-range drone campaign against Russia, striking St. Petersburg’s oil terminal, the Kronshtadt naval base, and multiple ships in the Azov Sea — timed to embarrass Putin’s high-profile Petersburg security conference. Meanwhile on the ground, Russia gained just 14 square kilometers in May at a cost of roughly 30,000 casualties, a pace that even Russian milbloggers call unsustainable. In Romania, a second stray Russian drone found near Băsești drew no meaningful NATO response.

In Dnipro alone, earlier strikes on residential buildings on Saturday afternoon killed one person and wounded seven others, while rescue teams continued to search for five individuals missing under the rubble of a four-story apartment block hit earlier that morning.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has reiterated that the persistent targeting of “ordinary urban infrastructure” necessitates the immediate implementation of the 21st EU sanctions package and the urgent delivery of air defense reinforcements through the PURL program to protect civilians from the ongoing “murderous war machine.”