Ukraine on Thursday accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians after 30 people were killed when two buses were blown up in the frontline city of Kramatorsk, in one of the deadliest single attacks for weeks.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed that the attack “will not go unanswered” after photos posted by local authorities showed the burnt-out metal shell of the vehicles, with bodies and debris strewn across the road.
“Russia is trying to destroy all life in (the) Donbas (region) and the world must respond to this,” he wrote on Telegram, warning that the death toll could rise.
Police said the buses were hit with a glide bomb. Three more people were killed in a nearby village as a result of shelling, the emergency services said.
The strikes come just a day after five children were among 22 killed when a Russian missile flattened a five-story apartment block in Pryluky, in the northern Chernigiv region.
“The Russians are deliberately targeting civilians,” Donetsk Governor Vadym Filashkin said, accusing Moscow of flouting “every conceivable rule of warfare and norm of international humanitarian law.”
Kramatorsk City Council called it “yet another horrific crime committed by the Russian army against the civilian population.”
“Once again, the Russians have struck a location where there are absolutely no military targets,” it added.
by AFP – Russian strike on buses kills 30 in frontline Ukrainian city
