Russian troops attacked central Zaporizhzhia with missiles and drones at around 12:00 on 26 June. One of the drones hit the courtyard of the Suspilne Zaporizhzhia branch. The staff who were in the building were in a bomb shelter at the moment of the strike, so no one was injured, Suspilne reports.
However, a journalist whose crew was away working on the ground was stunned by the blast wave.
“A drone fell down in the office’s courtyard, we immediately contacted the special services and they arrived shortly to carry out the needed inspection. The buildings of the branch were intact, it was our staff’s cars in the parking lot that were damaged,” Suspilne Zaporizhzhia manager Marianna Hura said.
Suspilne Zaporizhzhia’s chief editor Alyona Natalukha said a Suspilne journalist was working on the ground at the moment of the strike and was affected by the blast wave.
“She suffered no severe injuries, but she did receive mild acubarotrauma (was stunned),” Natalukha said.
As previously reported, the Zaporizhzhia office of Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne was damaged in the Russian shelling strike late on 26 November 2026. The team was unharmed: there was no one in the office at the time of the strike.