Russia kills 30 in Kramatorsk bus attack; Kyiv blackouts deepen — SkimNews
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- Russian forces struck a bus stop in Kramatorsk with a guided bomb, killing 30 people, with city officials saying follow-up drone attacks deliberately hampered the rescue effort.
- A day earlier, Russian missiles hit a residential building in the northern town of Pryluky, killing 22 including five children and wounding at least 54, with some survivors sleeping in damaged apartments.
- Zelensky, visiting Pryluky alongside UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband, appealed to NATO for anti-ballistic capabilities, combat aircraft ammunition, and interceptor investments, warning Russia will escalate as winter approaches.
- Ukrenergo ordered emergency power outages in Kyiv as Russia widened targets to energy systems, railways, post offices, telecom networks, gas stations and grain export infrastructure; officials urged families to stockpile water and backup power.
- Ukrainian drones struck a Yandex data centre in Russia's Ryazan region and a major oil refining and petrochemical complex in Salavat, roughly 1,200 km east of Moscow, with additional drones reaching the Omsk region more than 2,000 km from the border.
- Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan presented proposals to both sides on protecting Black Sea civilian shipping, warning that escalating offensives could disrupt commercial trade and grain exports.
- Lithuania deployed roughly 100 additional soldiers to its border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, its defence minister said, citing the enclave as a major security concern for NATO's eastern flank.
Why it matters: Russia is now killing dozens of Ukrainian civilians per day in deliberate strikes on buses, apartment blocks, and energy infrastructure timed for winter, while Ukraine is demonstrating a striking reach — hitting oil and data infrastructure 2,000 km inside Russia — that raises the cost of escalation for Moscow and is already pulling NATO frontline states like Lithuania into direct defensive reinforcement of the Kaliningrad border.
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