Russian strike in Dnipro damages apartment of regional NUJU chair

A Russian air strike in Dnipro city damaged the apartment owned by Oleksiy Kovalchuk, chair of the National Union of Journalists’ regional branch, Kovalchuk reported in a comment to Kateryna Lysiuk, the Institute of Mass Information representative in Dnipropetrovsk oblast.

Kovalchuk said that an IDP from Pokrovsk was currently staying in the apartment with her two children.

“Thank God, it was a business day, so she was at her job and the children were at school nearby. Meaning, nobody was home,” Oleksiy Kovalchuk said.

The children’s room suffered the most damage: the blast wave completely broke the glazing on the balcony and the glass in the interior window and the door.

“The blast wave moved very strangely. In our house, it was the first to third floors that were damaged, the higher floors are all fine, the windows are intact. And for some reason, it was the first floor that suffered the most damage,” Kovalchuk said.

The blast wave broke all the glazing in Oleksiy Kovalchuk’s apartment. Photo shared with IMI by Oleksiy Kovalchuk

The strike also damaged the apartment of Kovalchuk’s in-laws: the parents of his wife Natalia Kovalchuk, chief editor at Visti Prydniprovya. They lived in a neighboring segment of the building, on the first floor as well. At the time of the explosion, the couple was at home, but they were unharmed.

“The parents are old enough, 70+. Natasha’s mother was very scared. The explosion was so strong that the interior doors opened and shut with the blast wave. Probably because the windows on the balcony were open. My mother’s cat was walking around there (the cat was also very scared),” said Oleksiy Kovalchuk.

According to Oleksiy, no one in their house was injured.

The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration chair Oleksandr Hanzha reported on Telegram that the Russian strike in Dnipro city on 24 March injured 13 people, including 3 children, and damaged eight apartment buildings and two daycares.

As reported earlier, the Russian troops shelled Zaporizhzhia city on 24 March 2026, hitting the apartment owned by Espreso TV war correspondent turned serviceman Artem Lahutenko and killing the tenant living in it.