The Russian military has expanded its systematic targeting of Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, executing a series of coordinated drone strikes that severely damaged the country’s primary private postal and logistics network, Nova Poshta, on Sunday, May 31.
Total destruction of Dnipro hub
In the city of Dnipro, a direct hit from a Russian strike drone targeted Nova Poshta’s Branch No. 1. The impact triggered a catastrophic fire that completely engulfed the facility, razing the building to the ground. State emergency crews and police units were deployed to the scene to suppress the blaze and begin assessing the structural fallout.
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Despite the total destruction of the property, Nova Poshta confirmed via Telegram that none of its employees were injured or killed in the blast. The company moved swiftly to contain the logistical fallout of the strike, reassuring the public that contingency networks have already been activated.
“Backup schemes have been introduced, and logistics have been restructured,” Nova Poshta stated in an official announcement. “No delivery delays are expected. As always, the company will compensate customers for the declared value of destroyed shipments. We are already contacting clients to provide reimbursement details.”
Slovyansk bombardment wounds civilians
Simultaneously, the frontline community of Slovyansk in the Donetsk region faced an intense, multi-vector aerial assault. According to Vadym Lyakh, head of the Slovyansk City Military Administration, Russian forces targeted the local municipality six times within a 24-hour window.
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The strike package utilized a highly aggressive mix of tactical assets, including FPV kamikaze drones, “Molniya-2” loitering munitions, and “Geran-2” (Shahed-type) strike drones.
The localized blitz struck another Nova Poshta branch and a commercial gas station, while heavily damaging at least five nearby private residential homes.
The administration confirmed that two civilians – a seven-year-old boy and his mother – sustained wounds during the bombardment. Emergency medical teams have provided both victims with necessary medical assistance.
The targeted strikes on civilian postal networks unfolded during an exceptionally aggressive weekend of Russian aerial warfare. The Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Kremlin deployed a massive swarm of 229 unmanned assets – comprising standard Shahed loitering munitions, secondary Gerbera and Italmas UAVs, and specialized “Parodiya” decoy drones designed to overwhelm radar grids.
A coordinated defense effort involving Ukrainian fighter aviation, mobile fire groups, and electronic warfare (EW) units successfully neutralized 212 of the incoming threats. However, 14 strike drones managed to bypass defensive umbrellas to hit targets across 11 distinct locations.
Beyond the destruction of the logistics facilities in Dnipro and Slovyansk, a fatal breakthrough in the Koriukivka district of the Chernihiv region sparked a massive fire at a commercial parking lot, destroying seven cargo trucks and killing a 58-year-old man.
This followed a lethal “double-tap” drone assault just 24 hours prior in Zaporizhzhia, which intentionally targeted first responders managing an earlier blast site, killing one worker and expanding the radius of destruction into residential blocks. Parallel strikes also damaged a residential quarter in Kherson and hit civilian medical infrastructure in the Poltava region, reinforcing a clear pattern of sustained Russian attrition directed at non-military targets across Ukraine.
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