At least nine killed in Ukrainian attack on bus in Luhansk

At least nine people have died due to an attack by the Ukrainian Army against the bus in which a total of 15 people were traveling in the province of Lugansk, partially occupied by Russia for four years.

The leader of the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), Leonid Pasechnik, has indicated on his social networks that eight of the victims died immediately due to the “terrible” attack and the ninth, a 20-year-old girl, did so in the hospital. “The doctors fought for her life, but they couldn’t save her,” he lamented.

As a result of the attack, five passengers have been injured, one of whom has been hospitalized, and the driver, although he has received medical treatment at the scene of the incident, the road that connects the towns of Zoloté and Pervomaisk.

Pasechnik has accused the “bloody kyiv regime” of the attack, which he described as “another act of terrorism, cynical, inhuman and indefensible.” “This is a war crime, for which those responsible will undoubtedly be punished,” he denounced, before expressing his condolences to the victims.