Rescue officials said a glide-bomb strike on two buses in Kramatorsk killed at least 30 people. Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin said 18 others were wounded.
A Russian glide-bomb strike on two civilian buses in Kramatorsk killed at least 30 people, Ukrainian rescue officials told the BBC. Authorities said three more people were killed in Bilenke, in the same community.
Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin said 18 people were wounded and accused Russia of targeting buses carrying passengers. Kramatorsk and neighbouring Slovyansk sit in the area Moscow is trying to take as part of its claim to Donbas.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strike would not go without a response. On Telegram he said Russia was trying to destroy all life in Donbas and that allies needed to react harshly. Local prosecutors posted images of a burned bus shell and debris on the road, the BBC said.
Later Friday briefs from other outlets put the two-day civilian death toll higher, including a Just Security summary of Zelensky accusing the United States of being unwilling to help after a bomb attack he said killed at least 35. Those later totals are not substituted for the BBC's bus figure.
The row is filed under Russia because Ukrainian officials attribute the strike to Russian forces. Russia had not published a matching account in the BBC story. The location of the deaths is eastern Ukraine.
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- Vadym Filashkin accused Russia of targeting passenger buses.
- Volodymyr Zelensky said the strike would not go without a Ukrainian response.