The office of the newspaper Mezhivskyi Merydian was destroyed in a Russian guided bomb strike in Mezhova village (Dnipropetrovsk oblast) late on 29 March, the newspaper reported.
The team said that a Russian guided bomb, likely a KAB-500, was dropped on the two-story building housing the office. Multiple buildings on neighboring streets were destroyed and damaged as well.
“A two-story HOME… that’s right, HOME… for many generations of Mezhova journalists, where news, articles, stories were born every week since 1983… It no longer exists… It was literally razed to the ground,” the media outlet wrote.
This is the third strike that has affected the newspaper in recent months; private houses and shops on the surrounding streets were destroyed and damaged as well.
The village is located 12 kilometers away from the front line.
The team said that the newspaper remained one of the few media outlets in the frontline region that have continued to work, as opposed to closing down, relocating, or completely migrating to social media as many other local news outlets did.
“From 24 February 2022 and through 2025, not a single issue was cancelled… We reached our readers every week… Today we work on a different schedule, but with 12-page issues in colour… Even now… The next Mezhivskyi Merydian issue, No. 12,219, was signed to go to print on 28 March, the day before the office building was gone…” the team wrote.
On 28 August 2025, Russian troops targeted the Mezhivskyi Merydian office in Mezhova village (Dnipropetrovsk oblast) in a drone strike.
The newspaper has been in print since 1930 and celebrated its 95th anniversary in 2025.