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Kamikaze drone attacks bus near Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, allegedly war crime Publisher: Wikinews Date: 25 April 2025 Subject: Buses License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
 Bus in Marhanets city (Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine) after Russian strike by FPV drone in the morning of 23 April 2025. 9 people died and 51 were injured. The bus was transporting workers of a mining and processing plant. Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine (CC BY 4.0) |
On early Wednesday, a Loitering munition kamikaze drone attack from Russia hit a bus in the southern area of Dnipropetrovsk province, in Ukraine killing at least nine people and injuring several dozen more, though reports varied regarding the precise number of injuries. The city where the attack happened was in Marhanets.
134 drones from Russia were launched overnight, said Kyiv's Air force. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the bus attack was 'an absolutely deliberate war crime'.
The drone strike hit a bus on a bank of Ukraine. The bus was sending workers to a mining and processing plant. Russia did not immediately want to comment on the drone strike.
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