Ukrainian General Staff calls Russia’s reports of a strike on a bus carrying children in Bryansk a “provocation”
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In Russia’s Bryansk region, a bus carrying a children’s soccer team came under a drone strike. Acting Bryansk Region Governor Yegor Kovalchuk said that Ukrainian drones attacked a bus carrying a children’s soccer team from Belarus. The children from Gomel, …
The Ukrainian General Staff called Russia’s reports of a strike on a bus carrying children in Bryansk a “provocation”
The agency claims that Russia’s statements about this attack do not correspond to reality. Ukrainian forces did not use drones to strike the Bryansk region “during the specified period,” the Ukrainian General Staff said.
We view such reports as yet another information provocation by the Kremlin. Unable to achieve its stated goals on the battlefield and suffering significant losses, the Russian Federation is increasingly resorting to information manipulation and fabricated accusations against Ukraine,
the Ukrainian military command said.
The agency claims that Ukraine strikes only military targets, while Russia “systematically violates the norms of international humanitarian law” and strikes Ukrainian cities.
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Bus Strike Meets Ready-Made Provocation
Ukraine’s General Staff denied reports of a strike on a bus with children.
When facts fail, provocation does the job.