Russian drone strike killed 12 Ukrainian coal miners hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced postponement of U.S.-brokered peace talks with Russia until February.
A Russian drone strike hit a bus carrying miners in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region on Sunday, killing at least 12 people.
Ukrainian emergency services later reported the death toll had risen to 15 in one of the deadliest single attacks on energy workers since the start of the war.
The attack Sunday came a few hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced a new round of peace talks between Ukraine and Russia had been postponed.
A spokesperson for DTEK, Ukraine’s largest private energy firm, which employed the workers, told Fox News Digital that drones had targeted the bus as it traveled „roughly 40 miles from the front line in central and eastern Ukraine.“
The DTEK spokesperson also described the incident as a „terrorist attack on civilian infrastructure.“
„This strike was a targeted terrorist attack against civilians and another crime by Russia against critical infrastructure“, the spokesperson added.
The bus was transporting miners after the end of their shift when it was hit by a Russian drone, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine also confirmed.
