Since the morning of March 27, Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region has come under a drone attack. According to the head of the city administration, infrastructure facilities were hit. Damage has been recorded in several districts, with smoke rising.
This strike continues a series of Russian attacks in recent days. From March 24 to 26, Russia carried out one of the largest air assaults in recent times: around 1,000 drones and dozens of missiles were launched at Ukraine. The strikes targeted more than ten regions, including Dnipro, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia, and Kharkiv.
In Dnipro, a drone flies at low altitude over residential buildings before falling into the river.
In just 24 hours—from March 26 to 27—at least three people were killed, while dozens more were injured. On March 24, a combined attack killed at least five to seven people and left dozens wounded. Following the strikes, some residents in the Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, and Odesa regions were left without electricity, according to Ukrenergo.
Residential buildings, hospitals, energy infrastructure, and port facilities were damaged or destroyed. Strikes were recorded on power grids, electricity export facilities, as well as on the Danube port of Izmail.
In Lviv, a historic monastery in the city center, located within a UNESCO heritage zone, was damaged.
Some of the strikes were accompanied by large-scale fires in residential buildings—in Dnipro, a high-rise caught fire, with at least five people reported injured.
A residential high-rise building in Kharkiv damaged by a drone.
At the same time, Volodymyr Zelensky is on an official visit to Saudi Arabia. As part of the trip, he is holding meetings with Ukrainian military experts based there who are working on countering Iranian drones. On March 27, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia also signed a defense cooperation agreement.
According to Zelensky, Ukrainian specialists are already sharing their experience with Gulf states and are involved in building systems to defend against such attacks.
Earlier, Zelensky said that Ukraine had received a request from the United States for assistance in countering Iranian drones and was ready to provide it.
U.S. President Donald Trump publicly dismissed this, saying the United States did not need Ukraine’s help in this area. In response, Zelensky called such remarks “rhetoric” and said Ukrainian specialists were already working in this direction.