Seven people died and eleven others sustained injuries when a drone struck a passenger bus in Russian-occupied territory in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Wednesday, according to officials installed by the Kremlin.
Denis Pushilin announced on the Telegram messaging platform that the attack targeted a bus traveling from Moscow to Simferopol in Russian-controlled Crimea.
Russian authorities have launched a criminal probe into the incident, with the State Investigative Committee classifying it as “a terrorist attack,” according to TASS news agency reporting from the Committee’s spokeswoman, Svetlana Petrenko.
The bus attack follows a major aerial assault by Russia on Kyiv Tuesday, which Moscow claimed was retaliation for a fatal strike on a dormitory in Russian-held Luhansk territory. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that additional Russian attacks could be approaching.
