Military administrations in Kramatorsk and nearby Sloviansk suspended all public transport services after the attack and separate shelling in the village of Bilenke that killed three civilians. Roughly 70K residents remained in the area as of September 2026, with reports indicating 64 total deaths across Ukraine over the last 36 hours. Pro-Russian accounts argued the casualties were the result of Ukraine's failure to issue mandatory evacuation orders for the frontline city.
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Russian Bus Strike Kills 33 in Year's Deadliest Single Attack
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Ukrainian rescuers in the Donetsk region have identified victims trapped in burned-out minibuses following a glide-bomb attack in the city of Kramatorsk. Local authorities raised the death toll to 33 on Oct. 8, citing the event as the deadliest single strike in Ukraine this year. The strike wounded at least 18 people, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed the attack would not go unanswered.
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