Breaking: Russian strike on Ukrainian bus stop kills 33
Another 18 people were wounded in the strike on a street where two city buses were operating.
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A Russian bomb attack on a bus stop in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk has killed at least 33 people and wounded 18 others, according to local authorities.
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Why It Matters
Moscow's forces have stepped up drone and guided-bomb strikes on Kramatorsk and other cities in Ukraine's fortress belt. Russia demands Ukraine cede the rest of the Donetsk region.
A Russian bomb attack on a bus stop in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk has killed at least 33 people, authorities say.
Another 18 people were wounded in the attack on Thursday, local time, on a street where two city buses were operating, police said.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described it as a bus stop.
Images posted to X by the Ukrainian parliament's commissioner for human rights, Dmytro Lubinets, showed a burned-out shell of a bus. Another image showed several bodies strewn on the ground.
"Russia is systematically destroying Kramatorsk and terrorising civilians," Mr Lubinets said.
"These are not 'the consequences of war', nor dry statistics. These are people killed by the Russian army," regional governor Vadym Filashkin said on Telegram.
"Russia comes to Ukrainian land with death."
Moscow's forces have stepped up drone and guided-bomb strikes on Kramatorsk and other cities in Ukraine's so-called "fortress belt", local officials say, the backbone of its defences in the Donetsk region.
Russia has demanded that Ukraine cede the rest of the region still under its control before it stops fighting, which Kyiv refuses to do.
Thursday's attack came a day after dozens were killed in a massive Russian air attack across Ukraine, primarily targeting the country's power grid.
Open Questions
- Will international bodies issue further condemnations?
- What specific military targets, if any, were near the bus stop?
