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,

The attack occurred around 6:17 a.m. local time as the bus was heading toward the city of Sumy. Preliminary reports indicate that a Russian Lancet drone was likely used in the strike. By 7:41 a.m., the death toll had risen to nine,

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.