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Russian glide bomb kills 33 on Kramatorsk buses
BBC News··4d ago
A Russian glide bomb killed 33 people on two civilian buses in Kramatorsk, rescue officials said. Donetsk head Vadym Filashkin said 18 more were wounded. Moscow had not commented in the BBC report. In Pryluky on Wednesday, 22 people died in a flat attack, including five children. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband met President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Thursday.
Prism
What It Means For You
- Filashkin ordered public transport to stop in Kramatorsk and neighbouring Slovyansk after the bus strike.
- He urged civilians still in the eastern front-line region to move to safer parts of Ukraine.
- Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said Thursday attacks in the capital killed three people and injured 14.
What's Happening
- Local prosecutors posted images of a burning bus shell and debris on the road.
- Kramatorsk City Council said the strike hit a location with no military targets.
- Miliband announced further UK sanctions on Russia's war financing while meeting Zelensky.
Where the fortress belt sits
- Kramatorsk and Slovyansk form part of a fortress belt Russia is seeking in Donbas.
- The UN said Ukraine had more civilians killed by August this year than in all of 2025.
- Glide bombs carry winglets so they glide toward a target rather than fall straight down.
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