Two killed in Russian attack on bus in Kherson

(Reuters)

KYIV, May 2 – A Russian drone attack on a bus in Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson killed ​two people and injured seven more early on ‌Saturday, officials said.

Most of the casualties were public utilities workers, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin added on Telegram. He posted ​images from the site that showed the bus ​with blown-out windows and a body with ⁠traces of blood lying on its floor.

“Such attacks ​are part of a systemic policy of terror against ​the civilian population,” Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman, said on the Telegram app.

Kherson, the only regional capital seized by ​Russian forces in their 2022 full-scale invasion, was ​recaptured by Ukrainian troops later that year but has increasingly come ‌under ⁠attack from Russian forces across the Dnipro River.

Ukrainian officials and human rights organisations have accused Moscow’s troops of deliberate and systemic small-drone attacks on civilians ​across areas close ​to the ⁠frontline, in particular in Kherson.

The southern Odesa region, targeted by Russian strikes almost ​daily over the last couple of months, ​also ⁠came under attack overnight, the regional governor Oleh Kiper said.