GLIDE BOMB TURNS TWO KRAMATORSK BUSES INTO FIREBALLS — 33 DEAD! | Russia drops a winged bomb on a street where two packed city buses were rolling — 18 more wounded, the buses stop running in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, and the world is told to “react harshly”

Morning commute, front-line edition. A Russian glide bomb slammed into a street in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Thursday where two passenger buses were moving, killing at least 33 people and wounding 18, Ukraine’s emergency service and Donetsk regional head Vadym Filashkin said, per the BBC and Al Jazeera.

The toll climbed all morning. Ukraine’s National Police first reported 12 dead and 14 hurt after the strike around 10 a.m., saying a UMPB D-30 SN bomb hit the street and also damaged an apartment building, Interfax-Ukraine reports. Fire broke out on at least two buses, according to the emergency service, and prosecutors posted images of a burning metal shell on the road.

Filashkin accused Moscow of targeting buses to kill as many civilians as possible — and then shut the buses down. All public transport in Kramatorsk and neighboring Sloviansk was ordered to stop. “We have no right to risk the lives of passengers and drivers,” he said, per AP via NPR, urging anyone still in the region to move somewhere safer.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the strike “will not go without our response” and told the world to “react harshly — exactly as the Russians deserve.” Moscow had not commented.

The bigger picture is grim: one day earlier, a missile flattened an apartment block in Pryluky, where the death toll has risen to 22, including five children. The UN says Ukraine saw more civilians killed by August this year than in all of 2025. Kramatorsk and Sloviansk sit in the “fortress belt” Russia is clawing at in its push for the rest of Donetsk.

Sources: BBC · Al Jazeera · Interfax-Ukraine · NPR/AP