Russian drone hits municipal bus in Zaporizhzhia, four injured
Russian forces struck a municipal bus in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia with an FPV drone, injuring four people. The acting head of the regional military administration, Mykhailo Semikin, reported the attack.
Russian forces attacked a municipal bus in Zaporizhzhia, a city in southeastern Ukraine, with an FPV drone, according to Mykhailo Semikin, acting head of the Zaporizhzhia regional military administration (the regional authority operating under wartime conditions). An FPV drone is a small explosive-carrying drone steered by an operator through a live camera feed. The incident was reported on 29 October.
Number of injured rises
Semikin first said that a woman and a man had been wounded in the strike. He later updated the figure, saying four people had been injured. According to him, the two people first reported are already receiving assistance. The source does not describe the condition of the other two victims or where they were taken.
Semikin also published a video that shows the strike.
Background
The official also gave a picture of the scale of shelling in the region. Over the course of 28 October, Russian forces carried out 849 strikes on 44 settlements in the Zaporizhzhia region.
The attack on public transport shows that everyday urban infrastructure used by civilians is affected by the fighting. The source gives no further details on the exact location of the incident in the city or other circumstances.
