Innocent Blood Continues to Flow along Ukrainian Streets

Can you imagine the Russian gunner who targeted a civilian bus and purposefully killed nine innocent harmless civilians? 

This is a consistent practice of Russian cutthroats since invading Ukraine in February 2022. Civilians and noncombatant targets are easier to destroy than Ukrainian soldiers, who by all accounts are giving the Russian invaders a helluva difficult time in seizing all of Ukraine in two or three weeks.

The Russian drone hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian city of Marhanets on Wednesday, April 23, three days after Easter, killing nine people and injuring close to 50, Kyiv officials said, in an attack President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said was a “deliberate war crime.”

Zelenskyy said the Russian strike hit a bus that was transporting workers of a mining and processing plant.

“An ordinary bus. Clearly a civilian object, a civilian target,” Zelenskiy said on X. “It was an egregiously brutal attack – and an absolutely deliberate war crime,” he added, calling for “an immediate, full, and unconditional ceasefire.”

Russia fired a total of 134 attack drones at targets in Ukraine overnight, Kyiv’s air force said. There was no immediate comment from Russia. Moscow did proclaim an Easter truce, but it was largely a lie meant to give the invaders a respite to regroup. Its attacks persisted throughout the holiday weekend.

Marhanets, in south-central Ukraine, lies on the Ukrainian-controlled north bank of the Dnipro river's dried-up reservoir that separates the warring sides.

Zelenskyy shared photographs of the aftermath of the attack on X, showing bodies lying in and next to the bus and being carried away by emergency workers. He added most of the injured were women.

Elsewhere, an energy plant that provides electricity to the city of Kherson near southern front lines was destroyed in an artillery and drone attack, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said.

Ukraine’s emergency service also reported a drone strike on the Synelnykivskyi district in the Dnipropetrovsk region that injured two people and sparked a fire at an agricultural enterprise.

Russia further fired drones into the central region of Poltava, injuring at least six people, its governor said.

A drone attack on civilian infrastructure in the suburbs of the Black Sea port city of Odesa injured two people and sparked several fires, regional governor Oleh Kiper said on Telegram.

Russian drone salvoes also set off large-scale fires in Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, in the northeast, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram.

Seven private houses, a storage building and an outbuilding were also damaged by drones hitting the Kyiv capital region, where a fire also broke out in a restaurant complex, its regional governor said.

How much more innocent Ukrainian blood has to be spilled before President Trump and his entourage of ignorant and callous representatives understand what’s happening in Ukraine and who is the murderous aggressor – Russia.