Nine people were killed and four injured in a Russian strike on a minibus carrying civilians in northern Ukraine, regional authorities said today, a day after talks between Russians and Ukrainians failed to reach a ceasefire.
"An enemy drone hit a bus near Belopolje, killing nine people and injuring four," the military administration of the Sumy border region wrote on Telegram, along with photos of the wreckage of the minibus on the road.
The vehicle was heading towards Sumy, the source said, who had previously announced that a Russian attack had been carried out on a bus carrying civilians.
In the Sumy region, which borders Russia, Russian bombing has intensified since Ukrainian forces were expelled from the Russian Kursk region opposite Sumy in early March, where Ukrainians seized a small piece of territory in the summer of 2024.
In Istanbul yesterday, at the first peace talks since spring 2022, the Russians and Ukrainians agreed to exchange a thousand prisoners each, according to Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky.
The meeting ended without an announcement of a ceasefire, which Kyiv and its allies have identified as a priority.
The two sides now need to draw up a detailed proposal for such a ceasefire, Vladimir Medinski said in a brief address to reporters.
The head of the Ukrainian delegation, Rustem Umerov, and Medinsky said that the Ukrainian side had also discussed a possible meeting between Ukrainian and Russian Presidents Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin, which would be their first meeting since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Russian negotiator Medinsky said that "Moscow has taken note of this request."
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