{"id":27958,"date":"2025-04-17T16:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27958\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:23:10","slug":"russia-strikes-dnipro-as-ukrainian-officials-seek-security-pledges-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/27958\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia strikes Dnipro as Ukrainian officials seek security pledges in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing three people including a child and wounding dozens, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The strike was the latest in a string of Russian attacks<\/a> that have caused civilian casualties and intensified in recent weeks, as the United States continues efforts to negotiate a ceasefire<\/a> between Moscow and Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Thirty people, including five children, were wounded in the attack, said Serhii Lysak, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration.<\/p>\n

Local authorities said the drones caused widespread damage to civilian infrastructure, including an educational institution, a dormitory, a gymnasium and multiple residential buildings. Emergency Service said the strikes triggered multiple fires across the city.<\/p>\n

In reaction to the Dnipro attack, Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged allies to support the country with air defense weapons. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery defense package from partners for Ukraine now, every form of support from the world for our resilience, is literally protecting lives,\u201d Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram Thursday. \u201cRussia uses every day and every night to kill.\u201d <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian delegation was in Paris for a round of bilateral and multilateral meetings<\/a> with representatives of countries from the \u201ccoalition of the willing,\u201d including France, Germany and the United Kingdom, said Andrii Yermak, head of the Presidential Office. The multinational force is expected to act as a long-term security guarantee aimed at deterring future Russian aggression after a ceasefire is in place.<\/p>\n

The delegation also includes Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha and Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. Yermak said talks with representatives of the United States are also scheduled.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are working on important aspects for the security of Ukraine and all of Europe,\u201d Yermak wrote on Telegram.<\/p>\n

Separately, Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said Thursday that its air defense systems shot down 71 Ukrainian drones overnight across six regions. Of those, 49 drones were intercepted over the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, it said. Kyiv\u2019s forces seized a strip of land in the area during a surprise incursion in August 2024.<\/p>\n

Additional drones were downed over the Bryansk, Vladimir, Oryol, Ryazan, and Tula regions, the ministry said.<\/p>\n

And in Ukraine, Russia launched five missiles along with 75 strike drones overnight, the air force said Thursday. Air defense forces destroyed 25 drones, while another 30 were jammed.<\/p>\n

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Follow AP\u2019s coverage of the war in Ukraine at https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/russia-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2595,2000,299,16831,4179,8614,8615,8617,1411,285,332,7659,7661,657,7662,2601,7660,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-27958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-drones","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france-government","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-international-agreements","14":"tag-international-news","15":"tag-military-and-defense","16":"tag-paris","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-russia","19":"tag-russia-government","20":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","21":"tag-ukraine","22":"tag-ukraine-government","23":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","24":"tag-war-and-unrest","25":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114354232153544111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}