KYIV: A Russian drone assault on a minibus carrying civilians killed 9 individuals on Saturday (Might 17), authorities stated, a day after Moscow and Kyiv agreed to a large-scale prisoner swap at talks in Turkey.
On the finish of a tense week, Ukraine and Russia held their first direct talks in more than three years however did not conform to a truce.
And regardless of the specter of new sanctions on Russia from Kyiv’s allies, there was no let-up in preventing.
“Sadly, on account of a cynical assault by the Russians on a bus with civilians, there are useless,” the army administration in Ukraine’s northern Sumy area stated in a Telegram submit.
“Sadly, the demise toll has risen to 9,” it added later, alongside a photograph of a mangled blue minibus that had apparently been torn aside by the blast.
4 individuals had been wounded within the assault, the administration stated.
Within the earlier submit, the authorities had stated that eight individuals had been killed.
The bus, which was attacked close to the town of Bilopillya whereas travelling in direction of Sumy, was “focused by the Russians”, the army administration stated.
Ukraine’s Sumy border area has come below more and more lethal bombardments by Moscow since March when Ukrainian forces had been pushed out of Russia’s neighbouring Kursk area, which they’d partially managed for the reason that summer time of 2024.
This newest assault got here after three individuals had been killed in Russian strikes on Friday on Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk and southeastern Kherson areas.
