An airstrike on Kramatorsk claimed dozens of lives on a day of mourning for those killed in Priluki

The Russian military carried out an airstrike on the frontline city of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region on Thursday morning. Two buses were hit. At the moment, 33 deaths are known. The day before, 22 people were killed as a result of a missile attack on the city of Pryluky in the Chernihiv region.

“Today at about 10:00, Russian troops attacked Kramatorsk with a UMPB D-30SN bomb. The shell hit one of the streets of the city, where two regular buses were moving at that time,” says the statement of the National Police of Ukraine (UMPB D-30SN - universal interspecific glider ammunition).

Rescuers report that currently there are 30 dead and 18 injured. According to them, both buses caught fire.

Photos released earlier by the National Police of Ukraine showed burning buses and the bodies of two people lying in the street.

A mesh was stretched over the street, which was supposed to protect cars from drones; it was torn as a result of the bomb attack.

The Russian military did not comment on the strike. Kramatorsk is located next to the front line and is actually subject to shelling every day. Russia announces the advance of its troops in the direction of the city.

“I urge everyone who still remains in the Donetsk region to evacuate to safer regions of Ukraine,” said the head of the regional military administration, Vadim Filashkin, reporting on the buses that were hit. He ordered to stop the work of public transport in Kramatorsk and front-line Slavyansk.

The strike on Kramatorsk was struck on a day that was declared nationally in Ukraine as a day of mourning in memory of the fallen residents of the city of Priluki in the Chernihiv region.

The previous morning, during a massive attack officially announced by the Russian Ministry of Defense, one of the cruise missiles hit a five-story residential building in Priluki, Ukrainian authorities reported.

On Thursday, rescuers reported the completion of search and rescue efforts, confirming the deaths of 22 people, including five children. Three of them were one year old; an eight-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl also died.

Russia has not commented on reports of dozens of deaths over the past two days. It is the highest civilian death toll this year since the sides stepped up their exchange of attacks.

Kyiv is under fire for the second day in a row. The day before, six people died in the capital of Ukraine - two in the morning and four in the evening, 21 people were injured.

In the evening, in the Obolon district, a drone hit a courtyard between residential buildings, killing two people, police reported. Another drone hit a 12-story building in the Desnyansky district, a fire started, and two dead women were found in one of the apartments.

Throughout the day on Thursday, the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaliy Klitschko, reported new hits. According to him, three people have died in the city since the beginning of the day.