Dnipro, 13 May (H.S.): Russian forces launched a renewed series of attacks across Ukraine on Tuesday after a U.S.-mediated three‑day ceasefire expired, killing at least six people in the Dnipropetrovsk region and causing widespread damage to homes and critical infrastructure, regional officials said.
Local authorities reported that the overnight assault included hundreds of unmanned aerial vehicles and explosive strikes that struck residential areas, energy installations and transport links, leaving multiple civilians dead and many more injured. A drone strike on an apartment block in Kryvyi Rih — President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown — killed two people and wounded four, including a nine‑month‑old infant who lost a leg, officials said.
Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration, said additional aerial bombardments northeast of Kryvyi Rih killed four people and injured three others as emergency crews carried out search and rescue operations at multiple impact sites. Hanzha and other regional officials reported that air defences intercepted many incoming drones but that strikes nevertheless damaged energy facilities and residential buildings, triggering blackouts and complicating relief efforts.
Kyiv accused Moscow of spurning a proposal to extend the temporary truce; Ukrainian officials said Russian forces launched more than 200 drones overnight, marking a sharp escalation that ended hopes the ceasefire would be prolonged. President Zelenskiy condemned the attacks as “cynical and devoid of all military logic” and urged the international community to sustain pressure on Russia while bolstering Ukraine’s air‑defence and humanitarian capabilities.
Russian statements framed the lapse of the truce as the resumption of military operations, and Moscow reported continued strikes and defensive actions near front‑line areas. Independent verification of the full scale and precise targets of Tuesday’s strikes is constrained by restricted access to front‑line zones; international agencies and newsrooms have relied on official regional briefings, eyewitness accounts and defence ministry bulletins to compile casualty and damage tallies.
The resumption of attacks follows a brief period of reduced large‑scale airstrikes that accompanied the ceasefire tied to Victory Day commemorations; analysts warned that the failure to extend the truce increases the risk of sustained escalation along the 1,250‑kilometre front, where heavy fighting has continued in eastern sectors and drone and missile barrages threaten civilian infrastructure and displacement flows.
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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar
