Key facts
- A drone attack killed seven people and wounded 11 in Russian-controlled Donetsk.
- The drone struck a passenger bus traveling between Moscow and Simferopol.
- Denis Pushilin, the Kremlin-installed head of the region, reported the incident.
- Russia has opened a criminal investigation into the attack, classifying it as a terrorist act.
A drone attack killed seven people and wounded another 11 in a Russian-controlled part of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. Denis Pushilin, the Kremlin-installed head of the region, stated on Telegram that the drone hit a passenger bus traveling between Moscow and Simferopol in Russian-occupied Crimea. Russia's State Investigative Committee has initiated a criminal investigation, categorizing the incident as a "terrorist attack," according to TASS news agency, citing committee spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko. This event follows a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack on Kyiv, which Moscow stated was a response to a deadly attack on a dormitory in Russian-controlled Luhansk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy indicated that another Russian attack might be imminent.