A bus evacuating civilians was attacked by Russian forces on the morning of Saturday 17 May in Sumy Oblast, killing nine people. Source: Yurii Zarko, head of the Bilopillia hromada, on Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne [a hromada is an administrative unit designating a village,

A Russian drone attack on a bus in northeastern Ukraine killed at least nine people and injured seven others, Ukrainian officials said Saturday, just hours after the two countries met for the first direct peace talk in three years.

The strike in Sumy Oblast tore the roof off of the vehicle. Nine people were killed and seven were injured on Saturday in a Russian drone attack on a bus carrying civilians in northeastern Ukraine, according to local officials.