BRYANSK, June 17. /TASS/. Ukraine used an airplane-type drone to attack a bus carrying a youth football team from Belarus in the Bryansk Region, acting governor Yegor Kovalchuk said on Max messenger.
According to the latest information, a woman chaperone for the team died. Seven people were hospitalized, including five children.
TASS has compiled the key information about the incident.
Circumstances
– Ukraine used an airplane-type drone to attack a bus of the Gomel youth football team in the Bryansk Region, Kovalchuk said.
– According to him, the children were travelling to a training camp in Gelendzhik.
– There were 44 passengers on the attacked bus, including 28 child athletes, Russian Investigative Committee Spokeswoman Svetlana Petrenko said.
– According to the investigation, on June 17, Ukrainian armed groups sent drones to attack a double-decker bus of the children’s and youth sports school on the A240 highway in the Bryansk Region.
– The bus was traveling from Belarus on the Gomel-Gelendzhik route.
Casualties
– The victims were taken to the hospital, where they are receiving treatment.
– According to Kovalchuk, the rest of the passengers will be returned home soon.
– The Russian Health Ministry said that seven victims, including five children, were hospitalized.
– According to it, one victim is in serious condition, the rest are in moderate condition.
– The children received shrapnel wounds, Maria Lvova-Belova, presidential commissioner for children’s rights, said.
– Moscow specialists from the Center for Disaster Medicine are traveling to the Bryansk Region, said Kovalchuk.
Reaction and investigation
– The Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorist act).
– Petrenko noted that the agency is establishing the details of the crime and those involved in it.
– The Prosecutor’s Office of the Bryansk Region monitors the observance of the rights of victims of the Ukrainian strike.
– Regional prosecutor Vladimir Mosin went to the site, and a hotline was opened, the supervisory authority said.
– The regional Prosecutor’s Office is providing legal assistance to the victims.
– The Prosecutor’s Office has a hotline for protecting victim’s rights.
– Russia’s Commissioner for Human Rights Yana Lantratova said that she is in touch with her Belarusian colleague, Alexander Matyushonok, head of the Belarussian Department of Educational Work of the Education Ministry, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Bryansk Region Inna Mukhina and relevant agencies.
– Bryansk sports club Dinamo will provide its hotel for the families of the victims, it said in a statement.
– The Department of Physical Culture and Sports of the Bryansk Region is ready to assist the children’s football team from Belarus.
– Matyushonok told TASS that the issue of getting the children home to their families is being worked out.
– The Investigative Committee of Belarus has opened a criminal case, said Chairman Konstantin Bychek.
– Belarusian investigators left for Russia to assist their Russian colleagues, a committee official told TASS.
– Kovalchuk, said he was in touch with the leadership of the Gomel Region.
– The Ukrainian attack is yet another terrorist attack by Ukraine, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.
– The Kiev regime preys on civilians, especially children, she noted.
– Belarus’ Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the strike, Spokesman Ruslan Varankov said.
