
The attack hit a street with city buses in this strategic stronghold in eastern Ukraine
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Russia invades Ukraine on a large scale from February 2022, regularly bombing Ukrainian cities and targets.
A Russian bombing of the city of Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine, killed at least 33 people this Thursday. Authorities have described what happened as a deliberate attack against civilians in this strategic bastion that Moscow is trying to conquer. Another 18 people were injured in what is already one of the deadliest offensives this year. The bombing occurred on a street where, according to the police, two city buses were traveling at the time.
Images released by police showed several bodies lying on a street covered in rubble, as well as the charred shell of what appeared to be a bus.
“For them [the Russians], a bus with passengers is an attractive target, precisely because a single attack can kill as many people as possible,” the region's governor, Vadim Filashkin, wrote on Telegram.
Moscow has not yet commented on the offensive attack. Although Russian authorities deny deliberately targeting civilians, since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022, they have regularly bombed Ukrainian cities, towns and other targets.
On Tuesday, at least 26 civilians were killed in an intense day of Russian drone and missile attacks in a dozen regions of Ukraine. A town in the Chernihiv region suffered the worst loss, with 20 fatalities, including five minors, when one of the missiles hit a five-story apartment block, according to local authorities.
In addition to the fatalities, there were around one hundred injured, according to data provided by the Ukrainian authorities. The offensive was directed against civilian targets and energy infrastructure, kyiv denounced. According to Kremlin sources, the army targeted some military targets that the Ukrainians did not refer to.

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