KYIV: A Russian drone assault on a minibus carrying civilians killed 9 folks 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 lifeless,” the navy administration in Ukraine’s northern Sumy area stated in a Telegram put up.
“Sadly, the loss of life 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 folks had been wounded within the assault, the administration stated.
Within the earlier put up, the authorities had stated that eight folks had been killed.
The bus, which was attacked close to the town of Bilopillya whereas travelling in the direction of Sumy, was “focused by the Russians”, the navy administration stated.
Ukraine’s Sumy border area has come beneath more and more lethal bombardments by Moscow since March when Ukrainian forces had been pushed out of Russia’s neighbouring Kursk area, which that they had partially managed for the reason that summer time of 2024.
This newest assault got here after three folks had been killed in Russian strikes on Friday on Ukraine’s jap Donetsk and southeastern Kherson areas.
