Overview

• A Russian drone struck a civilian bus in Ukraine's Sumy region, killing nine people and injuring four, according to Ukrainian officials.
• The incident followed the collapse of peace talks held in Turkey, where Russian and Ukrainian delegations failed to agree on a temporary truce.
• Ukraine's National Police condemned the attack as a 'cynical war crime,' while Russia claimed it targeted a military equipment staging area in Sumy.
• Local authorities, led by Sumy's military administration head Ihor Tkachenko, launched a rescue operation at the site of the strike.
• Both sides deny targeting civilians, but the war, now in its third year, has resulted in thousands of civilian deaths, predominantly Ukrainian.