Russian drone strike on a passenger bus in Ukraine kills 5 people and wounds at least 7 others

France 24 Wednesday 16 September 2026, 16:17 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read

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A Russian drone struck a passenger bus in southern Ukraine early Wednesday, killing five people and wounding at least seven. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack, the latest in a series of Russian strikes on civilian transportation, as an “atrocity.” France 24's Gulliver Cragg tells us more.

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