During the Russian drone strike late on 17 November 2025, 21 Shahed drones targeted the Suspilne Dnipro office, with 13 hitting the building directly, Suspilne Dnipro manager Kateryna Lysiuk said on 11 February during a meeting between the parliamentary Humanitarian and Information Policy Committee and the Verkhovna Rada’s Temporary Commission to Investigate Crimes against Journalists and Other Media Professionals Committed by Russian Troops.
Lysiuk says this was the biggest attack on their office. Still, none of the employees were injured.
“The last of the staff had left literally 15 minutes before the strike. 15 minutes later, the attack began, lasting exactly an hour. It was an hour of hell, there’s no other way to say it. The total number of Shahed drones that hit the premises was 21, with 13 hitting the building itself. Our building has of two segments. Part of the roof has collapsed in the first one, and the other segment is completely ruined, there were about ten strikes there, the server room and the studio were hit. Everything burned down,” said Kateryna Lysiuk.
Lysiuk said the fire had spread to the first and second floors and the annex. The emergency services worked to extinguish it starting late on November 17 and through November 20.
The material damage is estimated at about 36 million hryvnias. Office equipment, furniture, studio equipment, and company cars were destroyed or damaged.
Kateryna Lysiuk mentioned the previous attacks on the office as well. The first strike occurred on 8 September 2023, when a missile feel down near the correspondent office, breaking the windows and the doors; however, the employees were unharmed, and the team resumed their work quickly.
The second strike occurred on 24 September 2024 near the main office building. Again, the explosion damaged the windows and part of the roof.
Despite the shelling, the branch did not stop broadcasting. The team now works from a new office.
Previously
The Russian mass drone strike on Dnipro city late on 17 November damaged the building where the offices of the regional Suspilne branch and Ukrainske Radio are located. The strike resulted in a fire, blasted out out the windows and doors, damaged the building’s ceilings and the roof. IMI’s Mediabaza Dnipro, which was based in the Suspilne building, was also destroyed.
The strike in Dnipro also damaged a TV tower in the city. The Russian strike on Suspilne Dnipro also destroyed half-century’s worth of archive footage.
Suspilne Dnipro has resumed offline work in a new office, which it rented after the Russian strike on their building.
Suspilne Kherson team is working from a rented basement due to constant Russian shelling and targeting of journalists by Russian drones. The basement is now the safest place in the city for the media professionals.
