A Russian drone hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian city of Marhanets on Wednesday, killing nine people and injuring almost 50 others, in an attack President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was a deliberate war crime.
Zelenskyy, in a post on X, said the Russian strike hit a bus that was transporting workers of a mining and processing plant.
“An ordinary bus. Clearly a civilian object, a civilian target. It was an egregiously brutal attack – and an absolutely deliberate war crime,” he added, calling for “an immediate, full, and unconditional ceasefire,”; he said.
Kyiv's air force confirmed that Russia fired a total of 134 attack drones at targets in Ukraine overnight.
However, there was no immediate comment from Russia at the time of filing this report.
Ukrainian officials arrived in London on Wednesday, even as most other big power foreign ministers pulled out, to hold talks about ways to achieve a ceasefire as a first step towards peace.
DAILY POST reports that Marhanets, in south-central Ukraine, lies on the Ukrainian-controlled north bank of the Dnipro river's dried-up reservoir that separates the warring sides.
According to Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Serhiy Lysak, at least nine people were killed in the attack and 49 were injured.
