Drone Strike Hits Bus in Donetsk: 7 Killed

A drone struck a passenger bus in the Russian-annexed region of Donetsk early Wednesday morning, killing seven people and wounding eleven others. The vehicle was traveling between Moscow and Russian-occupied Crimea when it was targeted in a strike that local authorities immediately blamed on Ukraine. While Kyiv has not yet commented on the incident, Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-installed leader of Donetsk, fiercely condemned the bombing as an “inhumane attack.” This deadly strike coincided with a massive wave of overnight aerial assaults, with Russian officials claiming their air defenses intercepted 350 Ukrainian drones across multiple western regions.