A drone strike killed seven people and injured 11 others in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine on Wednesday after a passenger bus was hit in the Donetsk region, according to Moscow-backed authorities.
Denis Pushilin, the Kremlin-supported head of the region, said the drone struck a bus travelling between Moscow and Simferopol in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Russian authorities described the incident as a deliberate attack on civilians. The country’s Investigative Committee said it had opened a criminal case under terrorism charges, according to state media.
The strike comes amid an intensifying exchange of drone attacks between Russia and Ukraine, with both sides reporting large-scale operations in recent days.
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