Russian drone strike hits bus carrying 40 children at petrol station in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, injuring six

A Russian drone struck a petrol station in the Krynychky hromada of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the morning of 3 May 2026, moments after about 40 children had disembarked from a tour bus, wounding six people, including a 10-year-old boy and a 21-year-old pregnant woman.

The bus driver, Serhii, told Suspilne: "It was around 8 a.m. We stopped, dropped the kids off at the toilet. They had only just gotten out, and the drone was flying in." The children were on a holiday trip to Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, according to Mykola Lukashuk, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council.

A truck at the petrol station caught fire due to the attack. The 10-year-old boy was hospitalized in moderate condition. Among the five adults hospitalized were the 21-year-old pregnant woman and a 40-year-old woman in serious condition, Oleksandr Hanzha, head of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration, reported on Telegram. Doctors described the condition of the other wounded as moderate.

The children were evacuated to the nearby Zatyshne community, where local residents prepared hot food. They later continued their trip to Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast on a replacement bus, trip organizers told Suspilne. Krynychky is roughly 100 km from the front line in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

Overnight on 2-3 May, Russia launched 268 drones and a ballistic Iskander-M missile at Ukraine, the Air Force reported. Ukrainian air defenses downed or jammed 249 of the 268 drones by 8 a.m. on 3 May. Separate attacks on 3 May killed two in Odesa Oblast and two in Kherson Oblast, and wounded dozens more across multiple oblasts.