Shared from Eva K Barlett's Telegram Channel.
"Natalia, one of the mothers who accompanied the children's team from Belarus to Gelendzhik (on Russia's Black Sea coast), told Ruptly that shortly before the attack, cartoons were turned on for the children. According to her, they started laughing, and at that moment there was an explosion.
Immediately after the impact, screams and panic began. Her child was seriously injured.
Victoria Goroshko, who died at the hands of Ukrainian militants, was traveling to Gelendzhik with her husband, a coach of a children's football team. She is survived by two daughters.
Some time after the attack on the bus on the same highway, an APU drone struck a car carrying a pregnant woman and two children, they were miraculously unharmed.
At the same time, attacks on civilians were also carried out in other border regions. The operational headquarters of the Belgorod region reported on June 17 that over the past day, drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine attacked 79 settlements. One civilian was killed and six wounded. In the Kursk region, a Ukrainian drone attacked a gas station in the city of Oboyan, killing one person and injuring two others, Governor Alexander Khinstein said.
Only in June, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked passenger buses in Yenakiyevo, near Melitopol and in the village of Voznesenovka, Belgorod region. According to Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik, May has become the bloodiest month since the beginning of 2026 in terms of the number of civilians killed and injured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces: 1,038 people were injured during the month, 153 of them died. The bloodiest episode was the attack on the college in Starobilsk: 21 people were killed.
One of Kiev's goals remains to disrupt transport links with Crimea and disrupt the tourist season, political analyst Yuri Svetov believes.
— Attacks on trains, buses, and bridges are a terror program against the Russian population. It is being consistently implemented with the help of their Western partners," he said...."
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