NIKOPOL, Ukraine -- A Russian drone hit a municipal bus in the Ukrainian city of Nikopol, killing at least four passengers and wounding 16 others. Ukrainian officials said it appeared to be a first-person-view drone, meaning the operator would have likely seen the passengers were civilians.
Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the regional military administration, said a municipal bus was pulling up to a stop in the center of Nikopol, in the eastern Dnipropetrovsk region, when it was hit by the drone on April 7. He said there were people both inside and waiting to board.
"It was deliberate terror against civilians," he wrote on Telegram.
"It's very scary because the buses are full of people going to work," one Nikopol resident told RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service shortly after the attack.
"Just imagine how many victims there would be from just one strike," she added.
"We don't know how to live here -- how to get around the city, or even how to survive," she said, adding she had been near the site just 10 minutes before the strike. "It's very frightening."
Ukrainian authorities said it said a first-person-view -- or FPV -- drone was responsible for the incident. FPV drone are piloted remotely by a person using a direct video link, enabling the pilot to see up close what he is targeting.
Russian forces attacked the Dnipropetrovsk region more than 10 times overnight, the regional governor also reported.
An 11-year-old boy died and five others were wounded when a house caught fire as a result of a drone strike, he said.
The Ukrainian Air Force reported on April 7 that Russia launched 110 drones against Ukraine overnight.
In Russia's central Vladimir region, the local governor said Ukrainian drones struck civilian infrastructure, killing three people, including a child. Governor Aleksandr Avdeyev said a 5-year-old girl survived but suffered burns and was hospitalized.
Russian forces shot down 45 Ukrainian drones over the country overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on April 7.
Leningrad regional Governor Aleksandr Drozdenko said that air defenses had shot down 22 Ukrainian drones over the northern region.
A satellite near-infrared image shows smoke rising from Russia's Baltic port of Ust-Luga after a Ukrainian attack on March 27, 2026
According to several Russian-language Telegram channels, Russia's main Baltic crude export port in the Leningrad region, Ust-Luga, was targeted.
Although the port had previously been damaged following multiple Ukrainian attacks, Bloomberg reported on April 6 that it had resumed oil shipments after brief disruptions.
Amid escalating attacks on energy infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed a cease-fire focused on halting such strikes.
"If Russia is ready to stop strikes on our energy infrastructure, we will be ready to respond in kind," Zelenskyy said in his April 6 address, adding that the proposal had been conveyed via the United States.
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, eight years after seizing control of the Crimean Peninsula and fomenting war in the Donbas, which comprises the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine.
Russia now occupies about 20 percent of Ukraine's territory and is demanding that Kyiv cede the portion of the Donetsk region that Moscow's forces have failed to capture in years of heavy fighting.
Control over the Donbas is one of the main sticking points in US-brokered efforts to end the war.
Several rounds of US-Ukraine-Russia talks have taken place over the last several months, but no peace talks have been taken place since the United States and Israel began bombing Iran on February 28.