Ukraine war: Bus hit in attack, Ukraine reports twelve dead

Attack on Kramatorsk Many victims in Russian attack on Ukrainian bus

At least twelve people are dead and another 14 injured: According to Ukrainian authorities, a Russian attack on Kramatorsk destroyed a bus. The number of victims could continue to rise.

Russia reportedly hit a bus in an attack on the city of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine. At least twelve people were killed, the public prosecutor's office said. Another 14 people were injured. The number of victims could still increase.

Vadym Filaschkin, governor of Donetsk Oblast, posted photos of a burning bus and rubble on Telegram. Apparently lifeless bodies are pixelated in the image. »Russia comes to Ukrainian soil with death. It attacks our cities, kills our people and commits more crimes every day," writes Filaschkin: "There is no justification for this."

Russia has not yet commented on the reports.

Along with Slovyansk, Kramatorsk is the last major city in the Donetsk region controlled by Ukraine. The city, in which 150,000 people lived before the start of the Russian war of aggression, is of great importance for the logistics of the Ukrainian armed forces at the front.

According to Ukrainian sources, at least 32 people were killed and 100 others injured in one of the worst Russian air strikes on Ukraine on Wednesday. President Volodymyr Zelenskyj spoke of one of the “vilest attacks”. The heaviest casualties were in the town of Pryluky in the northern Chernihiv region, where a Russian missile destroyed a five-story residential building. According to regional governor Vyacheslav Tschaus, 20 people died there, including five children.

Zelensky noted that the attacks coincided with Russian President Vladimir Putin's birthday. "This is the kind of birthday present that Putin gave himself: killing children, killing people," he said in his evening video speech.