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Ukraine Attacks Bus With Youth Football Players From Belarus - Acting Governor
Ukraine Attacks Bus With Youth Football Players From Belarus - Acting Governor
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Ukraine attacked a bus carrying a youth football team from the city of Gomel in Belarus near Russia's Bryansk, killing one woman and injuring six people, including four children, acting governor Egor Kovalchuk said on Wednesday.
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"The Ukrainian armed forces used an airplane-type UAV to attack the bus of the Gomel children's football team, who were traveling on vacation to Gelendzhik... A woman accompanying the team died," Kovalchuk said. The Ukrainian attack on the bus with the youth football team was a targeted strike, Kovalchuk added.The condition of the two wounded children is serious.The recent attack is not the only case of Ukraine targeting children. On May 22, Ukrainian forces attacked a student dormitory in Russia's Starobelsk, killing 21 teenagers and wounding 44 others.
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Ukraine Attacks Bus With Youth Football Players From Belarus - Acting Governor
10:04 GMT 17.06.2026 (Updated: 10:31 GMT 17.06.2026) BRYANSK, Russia (Sputnik) - Ukraine attacked a bus carrying a youth football team from the city of Gomel in Belarus near Russia's Bryansk, killing one woman and injuring seven people, including four children, acting governor Egor Kovalchuk said on Wednesday.
"The Ukrainian armed forces used an airplane-type UAV to attack the bus of the Gomel children's football team, who were traveling on vacation to Gelendzhik... A woman accompanying the team died," Kovalchuk said.
The Ukrainian attack on the bus with the youth football team was a targeted strike, Kovalchuk added.
The condition of the two wounded children is serious.
The recent attack is not the only case of Ukraine targeting children. On May 22, Ukrainian forces attacked a student dormitory in Russia's Starobelsk, killing 21 teenagers and wounding 44 others.
The Ukrainian armed forces' attack on the bus is another terrorist attack by the Kiev regime, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik.
