Drone attacks kill three, target bus in Russia’s Belgorod region

Drone attacks kill three, target bus in Russia’s Belgorod region
The multi-storey apartment building after been damaged during a Ukrainian drone attack in Chekhov Moscow region of Russia, on Tuesday, July 28, 2026. (AP)
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Updated 29 July 2026 01:24
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Drone attacks kill three, target bus in Russia’s Belgorod region

Drone attacks kill three, target bus in Russia’s Belgorod region
  • Moscow has accused ‌Ukraine of ‌staging systematic attacks on buses ​in different ‌Russian regions

Ukrainian drone ‌strikes killed three people on Tuesday in Russia’s border region of Belgorod and 19 more ​were injured in an attack on a bus denounced by the Foreign Ministry in Moscow.
Regional authorities said a drone strike on a business in a village near the border killed two people. ‌Another person was killed ‌in an attack ​on ‌a ⁠town ​outside the ⁠region’s main city, also called Belgorod.
The bus came under fire in the town of Shebekino, near the Ukrainian border, and all but one of those injured were sent ⁠to hospital for treatment.
Moscow has accused ‌Ukraine of ‌staging systematic attacks on buses ​in different ‌Russian regions.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria ‌Zakharova said the latest strike showed Ukraine was directing attacks on public transport “with a maniacal persistence, taking revenge on ordinary people ‌for growing failures at the front.”
Russian-installed authorities in occupied ⁠parts ⁠of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region said five people were injured on Tuesday in what they said was a Ukrainian drone strike on a bus. Russian authorities also blamed Ukraine for an attack last month on a bus carrying Belarusian children to a holiday site, which killed a ​woman and ​injured six children.
Ukraine’s military rejected the accusation as false.