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Three civilians killed in overnight Russian drone attack in southeastern Ukraine

Meanwhile, a top Russian general is killed in car bomb attack outside his flat near Moscow

Ukrainian police officers stand near a damaged building after a Russian ballistic missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 24, 2025

A RUSSIAN drone struck a block of flats in a south-eastern Ukraine city, killing three people and injuring 10 others, officials said today, while a Russian general was killed by a car bomb.

Among the civilians killed in the night-time drone strike in Pavlohrad, in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, were a child and a 76-year-old woman, the head of the regional administration, Serhii Lysak, wrote on Telegram.

Russian forces fired 103 Shahed and decoy drones at five Ukrainian regions overnight, Ukraine’s air force reported. Authorities in the north-eastern Sumy and Kharkiv regions reported damage to civilian infrastructure but no casualties.

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