At least 30 killed as Russian guided boom hits civilian bus in Ukraine
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At least 30 killed as Russian guided boom hits civilian bus in Ukraine
Come days after deadly missile strikes hit the northern Ukrainian town of Pryluky
Rich Booth Thursday 08 October 2026 16:18 BST
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A Russian guided bomb exploded beside passenger-filled public buses in the eastern Ukrainian city of Krematorsk, killing 30 people and wounding at least 18 more, authorities said Thursday.
The strike hit next to a bus stop during the morning in Krematorsk, which lies in Ukraine‘s Donetsk region, and public transport in the area was suspended as a result.
“There is no doubt that Russia is cynically targeting civilians,” Oleksandr Honcharenko, head of the city’s military administration, said, adding that the rescue effort had been hampered by subsequent Russian attacks using small drones.
The bombing came amid an intensive pre-winter wave of attacks across Ukraine, with power cuts deepening in the capital, Kyiv.
A day earlier, deadly missile strikes hit the northern Ukrainian town of Pryluky, where the death toll has now risen to 22, including five children.
At least 54 people were wounded in that attack, and rescuers were still searching the rubble of a residential building struck by a Russian missile.
Map of Krematorsk:
Rescue dogs continued a nearby search for residents who have not yet been accounted for, while heavy debris was removed from the cratered section of the building.
Some survivors of the Pryluky attack had to sleep in heavily damaged apartments because they couldn’t find anywhere else to sleep.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Russia will likely escalate daily missile and drone attacks as winter approaches.
He appealed for additional defense support from NATO countries.
open image in gallery“It is important that support in words takes concrete form in new packages for Ukraine’s defense,” he wrote in an online post. “Supplies of anti-ballistic capabilities, ammunition for our combat aircraft and investments in interceptors — all of this is directly helping save lives every day.”
In Kyiv, Ukraine’s energy company DTEK said the national grid operator Ukrenergo had ordered emergency power outages.
DTEK explained that these emergency cuts are separate from the regular, rolling outages scheduled across the country and would not be applied during those shutdowns.
A public awareness campaign restarted this month has urged families to prepare emergency kits, store drinking water and maintain off-grid power sources ahead of expected prolonged winter blackouts, as Moscow keeps up the intensity of its attacks.
Kyiv police said bomb disposal specialists had defused two more unexploded ballistic missile warheads, each weighing about half a ton, after they landed near residential buildings.
Late Wednesday, Russian drones struck Kyiv’s Obolonskyi and Desnianskyi districts, killing four people and injuring 12, including four children, police said.
Russia and Ukraine are locked in a long-range aerial war while their armies remain largely deadlocked on the front line, more than 4 1/2 years since Moscow’s full-scale invasion.
Russian technology giant Yandex said one of its data centers in the western Ryazan region was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack.
The site was taken offline, and Yandex said the attack could lead to online service disruption.
Also Thursday, Ukraine said its forces struck a large oil refinery complex in the city of Salavat, some 1,200 kilometers (about 750 miles) east of Moscow.
Ukraine’s General Staff described the complex as one of Russia’s largest oil refining and petrochemical facilities.
The claim could not be independently verified.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said his government had presented proposals to both Russia and Ukraine aimed at protecting civilian shipping in the Black Sea.
He also warned that commercial trade and grain exports could be disrupted by escalating military offensives.
open image in gallerySeparately, Lithuania has deployed about 100 additional soldiers to help secure its border with Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave bordering the NATO member, the Baltic country’s defense minister, Robertas Kaunas, said.
Kaliningrad is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, separated from mainland Russia, and remains a major security concern for NATO’s eastern flank.
Kaunas said both the duration of the deployment and the number of troops could be adjusted depending on changing security conditions.
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