GENICHESK, July 28. /TASS/. Since the beginning of the year, Ukrainian forces have carried out over 70 attacks on buses in Russia, killing 24 citizens and injuring 204 more, including 14 children, according to data from regional and local authorities reviewed by TASS.
Most of the attacks happened in Donbass and Novorossiya, where Ukrainian forces hit passenger buses and bus depots 41 times. As a result, 112 buses were destroyed, with a little under half of those being in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
At the same time, the biggest number of casualties among bus drivers and passengers is registered in the Central Federal District, with 14 people killed and another 125 injured in 31 Ukrainian attacks. The Belgorod Region accounts for most of these cases, with 11 killed and 102 others wounded in Ukraine’s attacks.
Since the beginning of the year, one incident with a passenger bus has been reported in the Southern Federal District. On June 6, falling UAV debris destroyed a bus in Sochi’s Khostinsky City District. According to the emergency operations center in the Krasnodar Region, 15 people were in the bus and nobody was injured.
Moreover, on July 22, a school bus depot near a Wildberries logistics center that caught fire was damaged in a Ukrainian drone attack on Krasnodar. Mayor Yevgeny Naumov reported that several vehicles cannot be repaired, while others sustained varying damage. In the end, the Krasnodar regional authorities decided to give 20 school buses to the city to organize the transportation of children.
