Posted on 05/17/2025 8:48:41 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Nine people have been killed in a Russian drone attack on a civilian minibus in north-eastern Ukraine, officials say.
Regional military leaders said seven others were also injured in the attack on Saturday morning in Bilopillia as a minibus travelled to Sumy, the regional capital close to Russia's border.
The strike occurred just hours after Russia and Ukraine held their first face-to-face talks in more than three years. Little was achieved but a prisoner swap was agreed.
Ukraine president Volodymr Zelensky said the attack on the bus was "a deliberate killing of civilians". Russia has not commented but state media reported that forces had hit a "military staging area" in the Sumy province.
Zelensky said Russian forces "could not help but understand what kind of vehicle they were hitting".
He said a family - a mother, father and their daughter - were among those killed in the attack.
Citing preliminary information, Sumy's regional head Oleh Hryhorov said the bus was hit by a Russian Lancet drone at 06:17 local time on Saturday (03:17 GMT). He described the attack as "inhumane".
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Was Zelensky in the bus?
“Nine killed in Russian strike on civilian bus in Ukraine”
Perfect timing by the Neocons, just as Trump is about to call Putin!
Yeah, what are the chances these people were actually murdered by the CIA for deep state reasons?
More likely Zelensky bombed the bus because he likes money coming in with war going on.
Follow the money.
Whatever. I am sure they wasted a whole missile on a bus with 9 people. It may have had troops or something in it. Uke media always plays this game. LOL
They all love war over there so have at it.
War is hell.
No, Zelensky just paid the fares, selected the route and planted the bomb.
Some oddities about this.
No bodies, no blood stains on the seats.
No tire marks like the van was just sitting there.
A nice Mercedes van for locals?
You cracked the case, Sherlock! Keep throwing out those idiotic conspiracy theories that support your slobbering love affair with the murderer Putin!
“Yeah, what are the chances these people were actually murdered by the CIA for deep state reasons?”
LOL, exactly!
Hope my Mail-Order Bride wasn’t in that bus.
What are the chances that it didn’t happen at all?
That’s what I think. It looks to me like that van blew up. From a bomb inside the van.
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