Russia accuses Ukraine of attacking bus carrying schoolchildren, Kyiv denies it
Russian officials said 44 passengers were aboard the bus, including 28 children, and called the case an act of terrorism.
- Russian officials accused Ukraine of launching a deadly drone strike in the border region of Bryansk on a civilian bus carrying a Belarusian youth football team, which was traveling to a Black Sea resort for a holiday.
- The attack resulted in the death of a 44-year-old Belarusian woman who was accompanying the group as a chaperone, while leaving eight other passengers injured, including six children.
- The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine firmly rejected the allegations as completely false, stating that Ukrainian forces did not operate any unmanned aerial vehicles in the Bryansk region during the specified period and emphasizing that they only target legitimate military sites.
- While Russia’s Investigative Committee immediately opened a criminal terrorism probe into the incident, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry condemned the strike as an act of terrorism against civilians and demanded a comprehensive explanation from Kyiv.
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The certificate states that at the time of the incident with the bus in the airspace of the area there were no Ukrainian drones.
The incident occurred on Wednesday. A drone attack killed a woman working with a youth soccer team from Belarus, who was on vacation. Seven people were injured, including four children, said Yegor Kovalchuk, governor of the Bryansk region. On Thursday, the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Chargé d'Affaires of Ukraine and handed him a protest note. Ministry spokesman Ruslan Varankov declared the incident a "monstrous crime." "T…
New horror in war zone: Bus full of children attacked as Russia and Ukraine trade blame
A bus carrying Belarusian children was hit in Russia’s Bryansk region, killing one person and injuring several others, in an attack Moscow blames on a Ukrainian drone and Kyiv firmly denies. As Russia opens a terrorism case and Belarus demands “complete explanations,” the tragedy becomes a new flashpoint in the Russia‑Ukraine war and its information battles.
Ukraine Denies Russian Claim of Drone Strike on Bus Carrying Belarusian Children
Ukraine’s General Staff has denied Russian claims that a Ukrainian drone struck a bus carrying a Belarusian children’s football team in Russia’s Bryansk Oblast, calling it “yet another information provocation.”
Ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets reacted to the statements of representatives of the Russian Federation and Belarus about the alleged drone hit of a bus with children of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Bryansk region and contacted the Belarusian side to find out “primary information about the incident”. He stressed that Ukraine has nothing to do with...
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, where the young athletes hit Russian side, in the cross-border region of Briansk, came from, denounced "a new act of terrorism
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