A Ukrainian airstrike killed nine people in Ukraine's eastern, Russian-occupied Luhansk region on Wednesday, according to Leonid Pasechnik, leader of Russia's occupying forces there.
Pasechnik labeled the strike "a war crime," saying it had killed eight people on the spot and that another person, a 20-year-old woman, died of her injuries shortly thereafter.
The bus was said to have been carrying 15 people, with five more reported injured.
Ukraine keeps up strikes in Russia, destroys another major warehouse
With US-brokered peace talks failing to get off the ground and the Kremlin sticking to its maximalist demands before agreeing to end its four-and-a-half-year invasion, Kyiv and Moscow have continued to escalate their air campaigns.
