The key facts

  • According to preliminary figures from the head of the LNR, five people were killed and 13 wounded; the wounded include teenagers aged 15 and 17.
  • Attacks on a GAZelle van on the Rebrokovo — Rovenky road (two killed) and on a minibus in Alchevsk (a 38-year-old man wounded) are also reported.
  • On November 2, in a strike on a Luhansk — Zymohiria bus, 19-year-old musician of the Luhansk Philharmonic Denis Goncharov was killed.

Strike on a passenger bus

A passenger bus traveling on the Petrovka — Luhansk route came under attack on the morning of November 5. According to preliminary figures given by the head of the Luhansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, five people were killed and 13 more were wounded, including two teenagers aged 15 and 17. “According to preliminary data, five people were killed and 13 more wounded as a result of this horrific strike,” — Gazeta.Ru quotes his statement. All the wounded, according to the head of the region, are receiving the necessary medical care and are under doctors' supervision.

What is known and what is missing

Life.ru specifies that Pasechnik published these figures on the Max messenger, and notes that the information is preliminary: the head of the republic's statement contains no exact location of the strike, no type of weapon used, no details on the nature of the injuries or the condition of the other wounded. The outlet also recalls a similar recent incident: on November 2, during an attack on a Luhansk — Zymohiria bus, 19-year-old double bass player of the Luhansk Philharmonic Denis Goncharov was killed, and at that time, according to the head of the region, one person was killed and eight were wounded.

Other attacks in the region

On the same day, according to Gazeta.Ru, a passenger GAZelle van was attacked on a section of the Rebrokovo — Rovenky road — two men were killed, and in Alchevsk, near the bus station, a strike hit a minibus, wounding a 38-year-old man. Earlier, on November 2, eight employees of the Russian Emergency Ministry were injured in a repeated drone attack while extinguishing a fire in a private-sector area of Donetsk that had broken out after a drone raid.