Russian drone strike hits bus, kills 15 in Ukraine

A Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro hit a bus carrying mine workers and killed 15 people, Ukrainian emergency services said Sunday, hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the next round of peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian delegations would be delayed until later this week.

- By VOLODYMYR YURCHUK

A PREGNANT patient evacuates a hospital room in Zaporizhzhia after a strike.

(KATERYNA KLOCHKO Associated Press)

The strike injured seven other people and sparked a fire, according to the emergency services.

DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, said it owns the bus and accused Russia of carrying out “a large-scale terrorist attack on DTEK mines in the Dnipropetrovsk region,” whose capital is Dnipro.

“The epicenter of one of the attacks was a company bus transporting miners from the enterprise after a shift in the Dnipropetrovsk region,” the company said in a Telegram post.

The strike came days after President Trump said the Kremlin had agreed to temporarily halt the targeting of the Ukrainian capital and other cities, as the region suffers freezing temperatures that have brought widespread hardship.

Hours earlier, Ukraine's emergency services reported that Russian drones injured six people at a maternity hospital in Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine, on Sunday morning.

Sunday's peace talks postponed