9 killed in Russian attack on bus

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Nine people were killed in a Russian drone attack on a minibus carrying civilians in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region yesterday, the local military administration said.

“Unfortunately, as a result of a cynical attack by Russians on a bus with civilians, there are dead,’ the administration said in a Telegram post.

“Unfortunately, the death toll has risen to nine?’ they added later, alongside a photo of a mangled blue minibus that had apparently been torn apart by the blast.

Four people were wounded in the attack, the administration said. In the earlier post, the authorities had said that eight people were killed.

The bus, which was attacked near the city of Bilopillya while travelling towards Sumy, was “targeted by the Russians’, the military administration said.

The blast came hours after Russia and Ukraine concluded their first direct talks in almost three years in Istanbul on Friday, but without a significant breakthrough.