The key facts

  • A UAV attacked a MAZ fuel tanker in Kherson region, puncturing its tank
  • Preliminarily, the driver and a passenger were injured; the passenger was hospitalized in Henichesk
  • The day before, on November 5, a strike on a passenger bus in Luhansk region killed five people

Strike on a fuel truck on the highway

A Ukrainian fixed-wing drone attacked a MAZ fuel tanker in Kherson region, leaving two civilians injured. This was reported by the administration of the Hornostaivka district, according to which the incident occurred on a section of the road between the village of Dubovka and the turnoff to the village of Kostiantynivka. The vehicle sustained multiple damages, including a punctured tank.

The victims

According to preliminary reports, the driver and a passenger were injured. The passenger was taken to a hospital in Henichesk; information about the driver's condition was being clarified at the time of publication.

Context: attack on a bus near Luhansk

The report about the fuel truck came amid a series of attacks on civilian targets in border and frontline regions. Thus, on November 5, according to Gazeta.Ru, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a passenger bus heading to Luhansk: the vehicle was completely burned out, five people were killed, and 13 more suffered burns and blast injuries, with two in extremely critical condition. The head of the Luhansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, called the strike a 'cynical and inhumane crime.' Separately, the outlet cited the account of Raisa Sosunovich, a resident of the village of Podstepnoye in the Aleshky district of Kherson region, Raisa Sosunovichwho survived a missile strike because at the moment of the attack she had gone out into the yard to check on her cow; the animal did not survive.