A Russian drone struck a bus transporting workers in eastern Ukraine, killing nine people and injuring more than 40, BBC reported.

The attack took place on Wednesday morning in the south-central city of Marhanets in the Dnipropetrovsk area, across the river from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station.

President Volodymyr Zelensky described it as "an egregiously brutal attack - and an absolutely deliberate war crime" against a "ordinary bus...clearly a civilian target."
He stated the majority of the injured were women who worked at a mining and processing company, according to BBC.

The strike came as top Trump officials withdrew from discussions in London between the UK, Europe, and Ukraine aimed at achieving a truce.