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  • Russian drone killed five people on a scheduled minibus in southeastern Ukraine
    A Russian drone struck a scheduled passenger minibus in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the morning of 16 September, killing and injuring people on board, the oblast military administration reported. The vehicle was running an intercity route when the drone reached it on the open road. Prosecutors opened a criminal case, and the head of the oblast council called the attack a cynical strike on people going about their day. Russia is fighting a ground war along a largely static front a
     

Russian drone killed five people on a scheduled minibus in southeastern Ukraine

16 septembre 2026 à 03:59

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A Russian drone struck a scheduled passenger minibus in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the morning of 16 September, killing and injuring people on board, the oblast military administration reported. The vehicle was running an intercity route when the drone reached it on the open road. Prosecutors opened a criminal case, and the head of the oblast council called the attack a cynical strike on people going about their day.

Russia is fighting a ground war along a largely static front and reaching everything behind it with drones, missiles, and glide bombs. In the oblasts closest to that front, the cheapest of those drones have turned ordinary movement—the trip to work, to the shop, to the clinic—into a lethal risk, and Ukrainian investigators have named the crews flying them while UN monitors have traced the practice up Russia's chain of command.

Five killed on the Pokrov to Dnipro run

Five people died at the scene, and doctors are treating at least seven injured, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Military Administration, Oleksandr Handzha, said. Russian forces struck Nikopol district with an FPV drone, damaging a route minibus that was travelling on the highway, the Prosecutor General's Office said.

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A man injured in the Russian drone strike on a passenger minibus in Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, 16 September 2026. Photo: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council

Mykola Lukashuk, who heads the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council, wrote that the strike was aimed and cynical.

"Russians cynically struck a passenger bus. Just a minibus in which people were travelling on their own business," he wrote.

The photograph Handzha published shows the windows torn out along one side of the white van, with blood running down the panel below them. In Lukashuk's image of the front end, the destination board behind the cracked windshield reads Pokrov, via Nikopol, to Dnipro, three towns strung along the same road.

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The front of the minibus struck by a Russian drone, its route board reading Pokrov via Nikopol to Dnipro, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, 16 September 2026. Photo: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council

The Dnipropetrovsk Oblast prosecutor's office opened proceedings under Article 438 of Ukraine's Criminal Code, which covers violations of the laws and customs of war, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

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The side of the minibus struck by a Russian drone in Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine, 16 September 2026. Photo: Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council

Drones had also attacked the district center and the Marhanets community in the same region, damaging an apartment building without hurting anyone, the administration said.

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Buses on these roads have been hit all year

Nikopol district lies on the Dnipro River directly across from Russian-occupied territory, which puts its roads inside the range of short-range drones. A drone hit a city bus in central Nikopol in April, killing four people and injuring 17, after which the mayor cut services and ran the rest off the fixed schedule. In June, a drone struck a minibus in Nikopol, killing two people and injuring 12, among them two 12-year-old girls, and in August a drone burned out another route minibus elsewhere in the district, injuring at least seven passengers.

The pattern runs past this district. A drone hit a bus near Dnipro in May, injuring six people including a child and a pregnant woman, and war analysts have assessed that Russian forces use harm to civilians as an instrument of the war in southern Ukraine rather than as its by-product. 

An FPV drone, short for first-person view, sends a live video feed back to whoever is flying it. The operator watches the target grow in the frame and steers the drone into it. A bus in motion is a target that has to be chosen and followed. FPV models are not the only cheap weapon over these roads: Russia also flies Molniya strike drones, which reach further and are switching to digital video that Ukraine's current detectors cannot pick up.

The Prosecutor General's Office documented more than 11,000 attacks by short-range drones on civilians, medics, rescuers, and police, with criminal cases rising from 2,427 in 2024 to 6,771 in 2025 and another 2,010 opened in the first four months of 2026. 

PODCAST. 4 ans après la mort de Mahsa Amini, polémique Macklemore et réunion d'indépendantistes : ça dit quoi ce 16 septembre ?

16 septembre 2026 à 03:09
Ce mercredi 16 septembre, quatre ans après la mort de Mahsa Amini les femmes iraniennes protestent en silence, plusieurs artistes quittent la tournée d'Ed Sheeran en soutien à Macklemore et les chefs des gouvernements écossais, gallois et nord-irlandais se sont réunis.

Ukraine : un drone russe cible un bus près de la ligne de front, faisant au moins cinq morts

Par : FRANCE 24
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Au moins cinq personnes ont été tuées mercredi dans une frappe de drone russe sur un bus dans la région de Dnipropetrovsk, dans le sud de l'Ukraine. Plusieurs personnes ont également été blessées.

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  • A suivre Loïc de la Mornais : Russie/Europe : la guerre qui se rapproche ?
    Dans cette première partie, Loïc de la Mornais et ses invités reviennent sur les provocations incessantes de la Russie. Un drone russe a survolé la Lituanie avant d'être abattu par des avions de chasse de l'OTAN. Un hélicoptère a également essuyé des tirs d'intimidation russes. Une séquence à retrouver dans l'émission "À suivre Loïc de la Mornais", diffusée entre 20h30 et 23h sur la chaîne info, canal 16.
     

A suivre Loïc de la Mornais : Russie/Europe : la guerre qui se rapproche ?

16 septembre 2026 à 02:13
Dans cette première partie, Loïc de la Mornais et ses invités reviennent sur les provocations incessantes de la Russie. Un drone russe a survolé la Lituanie avant d'être abattu par des avions de chasse de l'OTAN. Un hélicoptère a également essuyé des tirs d'intimidation russes. Une séquence à retrouver dans l'émission "À suivre Loïc de la Mornais", diffusée entre 20h30 et 23h sur la chaîne info, canal 16.

Rentrée judiciaire pour Rachida Dati et Carlos Ghosn, accusés de corruption

Par : FRANCE 24
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Attentats du 13-novembre : Mohamed Bakkali libérable en Belgique, une réunion organisée à Paris pour informer les victimes

16 septembre 2026 à 01:59
En Belgique, la période de sûreté prononcée par la justice française n'est plus applicable. Un détenu peut être libéré une fois un tiers de sa peine exécuté. Condamné à trente ans de réclusion en France mais détenu en Belgique, Mohamed Bakkali demande désormais sa libération conditionnelle.

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