Up to 33 people were killed earlier this morning after Russia struck two city buses in Kramatorsk. Ukrainian authorities said the buses were carrying passengers when they were hit by a glide bomb; another 18 people were wounded. The strike forms part of Russia’s escalatory campaign against Ukrainian civilians and cities.
The attack earlier this morning came as President Volodymyr Zelensky and British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband were visiting a five-storey residential building in Pryluky, in the Chernihiv region, which Russia had struck with a Kh-101 cruise missile early on 7 October. The search-and-rescue operation there has now ended. Twenty-two people were killed, including five children, and 54 were injured, seven of them children.
Drone and ballistic-missile strikes on Ukraine are now taking place around the clock, by day as well as by night, in contrast to earlier in the war, when such attacks usually came late at night. Russia continues to use air strikes on civilians as a means of terrorising the population after failing to break Ukrainian resistance on the front.
The escalation against Ukrainian civilians comes as the Armed Forces of Ukraine keep making significant gains the Dnipropetrovsk region. Russian casualties last peaked at a record of 42,860 soldiers and current reports state that Russia’s frontlines are taking very significant losses which include continued territorial loses.
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