The Russian drone strike in Dnipro city on 24 March 2026 damaged the apartment of Channel 5 correspondent Natalia Moskalenko, the journalist reported in a Facebook post.
In a comment to Kateryna Lysiuk, the Institute of Mass Information representative in Dnipropetrovsk oblast, Natalia Moskalenko said that the apartment where she lived was located on the seventh floor of a high-rise building, a few meters away from the house that was hit by a drone on the same day, at around 10:30 a.m.
“That is, you can see all the destruction that there is from our window. Yhe blast wave hit the balcony the hardest: it needs to be replaced. There are several cracks inside the rooms, but the balcony is the most damaged. Because the weather is still cold,” the journalist said.
According to Natalia Moskalenko, the blast wave broke all the window frames, the balcony glazing, punched through the balcony’s outer wall and floor. The glass in the door and the inner window was also shattered.
“The balcony is full of holes: in the floor, under the frames. So the entire structure needs to be replaced. I wasn’t home at that time. My mother, my sister, and my aunt were there. They were in the kitchen when the explosion went off. And that is basically what saved them: the kitchen faces the other way. Because had they been in that room, where the balcony is, they would have been badly hurt. After all, there is a lot of glass here, the shards – they flew all the way into the room. My mother said that she carried out about two buckets of glass shards,” said the Channel 5 correspondent.
The journalist said she had already filed a police report and received supplies from the humanitarian aid center Proliska Dnipro to board the windows shut.
The journalist also asked her friends and Facebook followers to help her fundraise for apartment repairs.
Monojar link: https://send.monobank.ua/jar/2HzAPWN4Kx.
Card number: 4874 1000 2598 6657.
Moskalenko added that she would donate any extra money to Ukraine’s Defense Forces.
As reported earlier, a Russian air strike in Dnipro city on 24 March 2026 damaged the apartment owned by Oleksiy Kovalchuk, chair of the National Union of Journalists’ regional branch.