Russian drone hits passenger bus in Kramatorsk, two hurt
A Russian FPV drone struck a moving passenger bus in Kramatorsk on Friday morning, part of a wider overnight attack that killed two and injured 27 across Ukraine.
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A first-person-view drone hit a passenger bus on its regular morning route through Kramatorsk, in Donetsk Oblast, shortly after 7 a.m. on Friday, injuring two people on board, the city council said.
Local officials said the vehicle was simply going about its normal service when it was targeted. "Russian troops have once again attacked civilian transport, right in the middle of a routine morning journey," the council said, adding that passengers had no link to any military target.
The bus attack came as Russia sent waves of drones over Ukraine overnight, launching 108 of them, among them 47 jet-powered Shahed variants together with Gerbera and Parodiya decoys, according to Ukraine's air force. Defences brought down or jammed 88 of the drones, while impacts were logged in eleven separate spots and wreckage from intercepted drones landed in five others.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the barrage also damaged housing blocks in Kramatorsk and Sumy and reached Dnipro, Odesa, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Poltava and Rivne. He said a kindergarten in Kherson was hit, and that a grocery store, an institute and power or utility lines in Kharkiv were damaged.
Regional governors gave their own tallies of casualties from the wider bombardment, counted separately from the Kramatorsk bus strike: Donetsk Oblast's Vadym Filashkin reported one death and four injuries region-wide; Kherson's Oleksandr Prokudin counted seven hurt; Kharkiv's Oleh Syniehubov said six were hurt in the city and nearby areas; Dnipropetrovsk's Oleksandr Hanzha put the Pavlohrad toll at four injured; and Sumy authorities said two men were hurt there.
In the south-east, Zaporizhzhia Oblast absorbed 741 separate strikes on 51 settlements overnight, though local officials said none of them left civilians hurt. Overall, Russian attacks killed at least two people and injured 27 others across Ukraine over the same period, officials said, according to the Kyiv Independent.
What we know
- 2+ outlets · Censor.net, The Kyiv Independent +1 A Russian FPV drone struck a passenger bus in Kramatorsk shortly after 7 a.m. on Friday, injuring two people.
- 1 outlet · The Kyiv Independent Russian attacks killed at least two people and injured 27 others across Ukraine over the past day.
- 1 outlet Russia launched 108 attack drones overnight; Ukraine's air defences downed or jammed 88 of them.
- 1 outlet Separate strikes injured people in Kherson, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Sumy regions.
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Why it matters for Europe
Kramatorsk is a key logistics and administrative hub for Ukrainian forces in Donetsk Oblast, and its public transport has been targeted by Russian strikes before. The bus attack came during one of the larger overnight drone waves in recent weeks, with impacts logged in at least nine regions, pointing to the breadth of Russia's continuing bombardment well beyond the capital. Ukraine's air force said the attack combined long-range Shahed drones with cheaper Gerbera and Parodiya decoys meant to exhaust Ukrainian air defences.
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- Censor.net: Russian forces struck bus in Kramatorsk with FPV drone: two injured. PHOTO
- The Kyiv Independent: Russian attacks kill 2, injure 27 across Ukraine, hit passenger bus with FPV drone in Kramatorsk
- Kurir: SCENA UŽASA U KRAMATORSKU, POGOĐEN PUN AUTOBUS! Ukrajina pod žestokom paljbom, ima mrtvih, na desetine ranjenih, hitno se oglasio Zelenski (FOTO/VIDEO)
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Questions and answers
- What happened in Kramatorsk?
- A Russian FPV drone struck a moving passenger bus on its regular route shortly after 7 a.m. on Friday, injuring two people, the city council said.
- How many casualties were there across Ukraine overnight?
- Russian attacks killed at least two people and injured 27 others across the country, according to the Kyiv Independent.
- How many drones did Russia launch?
- Russia launched 108 attack drones overnight, of which Ukrainian air defences downed or jammed 88, the air force said.
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