Kyiv – A Russian drone attack on a bus in the frontline city of Kherson in southern Ukraine killed four people on Wednesday and left another four wounded, the regional prosecutor’s office said.
Russian forces regularly strike the city — under Moscow’s control from March to November 2022 — with drones, in what Ukraine says is purposeful targeting of civilians.
“Russian military forces attacked a bus travelling down a street in Kherson with a drone. As a result of the attack, according to preliminary information, four civilian passengers were killed,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
It added that four more people were wounded.
Governor Oleksandr Prokudin posted images showing the bus with its windows shattered.
Ukraine earlier this month accused Russia of chasing a man on a street market in Kherson with a remotely piloted FPV drone, calling it a “safari” targeting civilians.
The city had a population of around 280,000 before the war.
Russian forces, repelled from the city by a Ukrainian counter-offensive in the autumn of 2022, are now positioned on the opposite bank of the Dnieper river which flows past Kherson.
There has been an uptick in civilian deaths in the conflict throughout 2026, the United Nations has reported, as the four-and-a-half-year war grinds on with no sign of a peace deal.
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Source: AFP
