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Deadly Drone Strike Kills 15 Miners in Ukraine as Russia Reports Dozens of Interceptions

Official updates highlight ongoing cross-border drone warfare with civilian casualties, frequent regional alerts.

Overview

  • DTEK said 15 mine workers were killed and seven injured after a Russian UAV strike near a company shuttle bus in the Pavlohrad district of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
  • Cherkasy regional authorities reported a large overnight drone attack that injured at least four people and sparked fires at multiple locations.
  • Russia’s Defence Ministry reported shooting down 15 Ukrainian drones over Belgorod, Kursk and Bryansk on Feb. 2, then 10 more overnight across Belgorod, Oryol, Kaluga, Kursk and Rostov.
  • Krasnodar Krai officials documented debris from downed drones in several districts with no casualties, though a private house roof was damaged in Afipsky.
  • Russian regional reports cited a woman wounded in Bryansk’s Klimovsky district and an employee injured at an agricultural enterprise in Sevsky district, while multiple regions issued then lifted drone or air alerts, and Rostov authorities said air defenses destroyed a UAV overnight.