A drone strike on a passenger bus in Russian-controlled Donetsk has left eight people dead and 11 injured, with Russia blaming Ukraine for the attack.
Another deadly chapter has unfolded in the Russia-Ukraine war, this time involving a passenger bus in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region.
As Reuters reports, eight civilians were killed and 11 others injured after a drone struck a bus in Yenakiievo, a town in the Russian-controlled part of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The bus was traveling from Moscow to Simferopol in Crimea when the attack occurred.
Denis Pushilin, the Kremlin-installed leader of the region, accused Ukraine of carrying out the strike and described it as an act of “inhuman aggression.” Russian authorities have since opened a criminal investigation, characterising the incident as a terrorist attack.
Ukraine had not immediately commented on the allegations. Kyiv has consistently denied deliberately targeting civilians, while both sides continue to trade accusations over attacks on non-military targets.
The latest incident comes amid a sharp escalation in long-range drone and missile attacks by both Russia and Ukraine. Just a day earlier, Russia launched a major barrage on Ukrainian cities that reportedly killed 23 people and injured more than 130. Moscow said those strikes were retaliation for an earlier Ukrainian attack, a claim Kyiv disputes.
As the conflict grinds on, civilians on both sides continue to bear the heaviest cost, with attacks far from the front lines becoming an increasingly grim feature of the war.
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