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“All the windows in the apartment are broken, the wall between the kitchen and the bathroom was “blown out” – the tiles cracked…” says the well-known photojournalist/member of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), Serhii Divieiev, describing the consequences of the powerful drone attack by the russians on the Dnipro on March 26.
Last week, the enemy massively attacked the city with UAVs twice – late in the evening on March 26 and 28, 2025. There was much damage in the residential sector.
About seven explosions – literally 50 meters from the house where Serhii Divieiev lives. He recalls that that time, the cat called Masha and the duct tape tightly stuck to the windows literally saved him from the terrible consequences.
“In the evening, I went to bed earlier, but my pet woke me up – she jumped on the bed, climbed, and pushed me. And when I woke up, I saw a message about the danger; I managed to go to the corridor, and it started!” says Serhii Divieiev. “What is interesting – the glass on all the windows was broken, but thanks to the tape, it didn’t fall apart. Even at the beginning of the war, I carefully sealed all the windows. My wife wanted to wash them more than once, but I refused as our country is still at war! You see, I say, even the flowers on the windowsill survived.”
A day later, on March 28, another massive drone attack again in the central part of the city with devastating consequences.
“So, summing up yesterday’s shelling of the Dnipro… My family house, built in 1908 in the historical part of the city, survived the First World War, the Second World War, and will survive you, m….s,” Dmytro Moskalenko, a Dnipro TV journalist, wrote emotionally on Facebook. Two windows were broken in the apartment. “True, there was a stained glass window with a centuries-old history, and most importantly, Lancelot Lvovych (the dog) was scared for the first time in three years.”
On March 29, the russian army hit a densely populated residential area in the center of Kryvyi Rih with ballistic missiles. As a result of the missile attack, the apartment of the journalist of the online media Pershyi Kryvyi Rih, Olena Smolina, was damaged for the second time (the first time the house was damaged was on July 31, 2023, as a result of a russian attack). The woman lives a few hundred meters from the epicenter of the explosion; one window on the balcony was broken in the apartment.
With a request to support the collection for the restoration of the house where the journalist of the media holding Nashe Misto, Andrii Fedchenko, lives, his colleagues are asking: “The apartment of my colleague Andrii. It is gone. They and the cats are safe. Any donation is important” (link to the bank account).
“Our house was badly damaged as a result of a missile attack by the terrorist country russia on March 28, 2025. The house needs major repairs. The roof and ceiling, windows, doors, etc., need to be completely replaced,” Andrii wrote.
The Dnipro JSC, the Board of the Dnipropetrovsk regional organization of the NUJU will request the Union for financial assistance for colleagues.
Dnipro regional organization of the NUJU
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