Overview
- Ukrainian officials say a Russian glide bomb struck two passenger buses in Kramatorsk on Thursday, killing between 30 and 33 people and wounding about 18 as rescue teams completed recoveries and identifications.
- Police and regional prosecutors published images of burned bus wreckage and bodies and have opened investigations into the attack that local leaders describe as a deliberate attack on civilians.
- The governor of Donetsk suspended public transport in Kramatorsk and nearby Sloviansk and urged residents to move to safer areas because of the growing danger along the front.
- The bus strike followed a reported Kh‑101 cruise missile hit on a five‑storey residential block in Pryluky the previous day that killed 22 people, including children, increasing alarm over Russia’s use of long‑range weapons on populated sites.
- The United Nations and Western officials have called for investigations and stepped‑up air‑defense support as Ukraine warns that continuing strikes on cities and energy infrastructure could deepen civilian hardship this winter.