
In Gorlovka in the DPR, five civilians were injured and one died as a result of a targeted strike by a Ukrainian drone on a passenger bus in the Nikitovsky district, said the head of the city, Ivan Prikhodko.
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Gorlovka is located in an armed conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, controlled by the DPR with Russian support. Regularly subject to shelling and drone attacks.
In Gorlovka in the DPR, five civilians were injured in a drone strike on a passenger bus.
A civilian died as a result of a UAV attack in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.
MOSCOW, September 3 - RIA Novosti. Five civilians were injured as a result of a targeted strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on a passenger bus in Gorlovka in the DPR, said the head of the city, Ivan Prikhodko.
“As a result of a targeted drone strike by Ukrainian terrorists on a passenger bus in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka, five civilians were injured,” Prikhodko wrote in a channel on the Max platform.
He added that a civilian was killed as a result of an attack by a Ukrainian UAV in the Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka.
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