Regional authorities in western Russia reported that a drone strike injured two people aboard a tourist bus transiting from the Belarusian capital Minsk to the Russian Black Sea resort town of Anapa on Thursday. The government of Russia's Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine and Belarus, told the Sputnik Belarus news agency that two drivers sustained minor injuries when the incident occurred at the Krasniy Kamen border crossing between Russia and Belarus.
Officials described the injuries as minor; the report did not detail other physical damage to the vehicle or to nearby infrastructure. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine regarding the incident.
The Bryansk region and neighbouring Kursk region are regularly cited by local authorities as coming under fire from across the border, with officials reporting instances of shelling that they say have produced injuries, fatalities and damage to infrastructure. The current report adds to a pattern of such claims affecting Russia's border oblasts.
In a separate episode last month, Russian authorities accused Ukraine of conducting a deadly drone strike on a bus carrying Belarusian schoolchildren in the Bryansk region. Ukraine's military denied responsibility for that reported attack, which involved a coach transporting members of a Belarusian youth soccer team to southern Russia.
Since the onset of the war in February 2022, Russian forces have regularly struck towns and cities inside Ukraine, including Kyiv, according to reporting and official statements; both Moscow and Kyiv deny intentionally targeting civilians. In parallel, Kyiv has increased the frequency of drone strikes inside Russia in recent months, saying the measures are intended to weaken the Russian economy and pressure Moscow to end the conflict. The war has, according to available accounts cited by officials, resulted in thousands of Ukrainian civilian deaths.
The recent incident at Krasniy Kamen underscores ongoing tensions and competing claims of responsibility for attacks near the Russia-Ukraine border, as well as continued disputes over strikes that involve civilian transport. Official attribution of responsibility in these cross-border incidents remains contested, and statements from both sides reflect differing narratives about military objectives and the targeting of non-combatants.