A Ukrainian drone struck a scheduled bus on the Moscow-to-Simferopol route in the city of Yenakiieve in the Donetsk region, killing seven people and wounding 11 others, according to Denis Pushilin, the Russia-appointed head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (“DNR”).
Andrei Rudenko, a correspondent for the Russian state broadcasting company VGTRK, posted photographs from the scene showing a burned-out bus with shattered windows and a fragment of the drone.
Russia’s Investigative Committee announced it had opened a criminal case on terrorism charges. The drone struck the bus on the morning of June 3, the committee said.
Yenakiieve lies roughly 50 kilometers (31 miles) northeast of Donetsk, toward Luhansk. The city has been under the control of the self-proclaimed “DNR” since 2014.
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