At least 30 people killed in Russian bus bombing in Ukraine

At least 30 people were killed when a Russian bomb struck two buses in the Ukrainian frontline city of Kramatorsk Thursday, local officials said, as Moscow’s intensifying attacks grow ever more deadly.

Another 18 people were wounded when the bomb hit a street in the city at 10 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET), Ukraine’s National Police said in a statement.

Kramatorsk’s Regional Governor Vadym Filashkin accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians, sharing images of a charred bus wreckage and bodies and body parts on the road next to it. Filashkin said he was shutting down public transport in the city and neighboring Sloviansk in light of “the sharp deterioration of the security situation.”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a statement on X that Russia struck “an ordinary public transport stop” in Kramatorsk with an aerial bomb.

In a later post, he said doctors were fighting to save the lives of those injured and “some of those killed have still not been identified because of the severity of their injuries.”

Kramatorsk is close to the active frontline and part of Ukraine’s industrial Donbass region, which has been central to President Vladimir Putin war plans.

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Civilian casualties have surged as Russia intensifies attacks across Ukraine, and the country Ukraine runs low on air defense munitions. There has also been an uptick in daytime attacks in recent weeks, creating a round-the-clock threat to civilians.

On Wednesday, a missile strike on a residential building in the north of the country killed 22 people, including five children.

Moscow has repeatedly denied that it deliberately targets civilians in Ukraine.