The bus destroyed in a drone strike outside the city of Pavlohrad was carrying miners on their way home from a shift, energy company DTEK said, according to the AP news agency. The company said 15 people were killed in the attack in southern Ukraine, just over 60 kilometers from the frontline. At least seven more people were injured.
DTEK described it as an attack on Ukraine's coal mining capacity. According to the Kyiv Independent, Ukraine currently has only 14 coal mines in operation, down from 145 in 2014 when Russia illegally annexed the southern peninsula of Crimea.
Earlier in the day, a man and a woman were killed by a “hostile” drone strike in the industrial city of Dnipro, the head of the regional military administration there wrote on Telegram. The drone reportedly caused a fire that destroyed the house where the man and woman were and injured two others.
In Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, two people were killed and at least five injured, The Kyiv Independent reports, citing the region's governor. Russian drone attacks have also injured people and caused devastation in Sumy, Kherson and Kharkiv, among others, according to the newspaper.
In addition, a Russian attack on a maternity clinic in the city of Zaporizhzhia reportedly injured at least six people.
"Another proof that the war is being waged against life itself," the area's governor writes on Telegram.
According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, several regions are reporting power outages, and in Kyiv around 500 high-rise buildings still lack heat.
