Ukrainian officials said a Russian glide-bomb strike hit two city buses in Kramatorsk on Thursday morning, killing at least 30 people and wounding 18. Three more people were killed in nearby Bilenke.
A Russian strike on two city buses in Kramatorsk killed at least 30 people and wounded 18 on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said. The Donetsk regional prosecutor's office said the attack happened at about 10 a.m. with an aerial bomb on Yuvileina Street, next to a dental clinic. Public transport in the city was suspended.
Donetsk governor Vadym Filashkin accused Russia of targeting buses because one strike could kill many civilians. President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strike would not go without a response and called the site an ordinary public transport stop. Three more people were killed by shelling in Bilenke, in the Kramatorsk community, officials said.
The Guardian reported that some of the dead could not be identified because of the severity of their injuries. Prosecutors posted images of a burned bus shell and debris. Al Jazeera noted that glide bombs are less precise than ballistic missiles.
Kramatorsk and neighbouring Slovyansk are part of the belt of cities Moscow is trying to take in Donetsk. Ukrainian officials said Kyiv later hit an oil refinery in Siberia and a data centre in the Ryazan region. Those claims were reported by Dawn citing Ukrainian accounts and are not independently confirmed in the BBC story.
Russia had not, in the reports cited here, published a statement accepting or denying the bus strike. The death toll is the Ukrainian official count as of Thursday.
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- Volodymyr Zelensky said the strike would not go without a response.
- Vadym Filashkin said Russia targeted buses carrying passengers.