A presidential statement raised alarm after the bus attack, suggesting the strike was a staged provocation to pull Belarus into the Russian-Ukrainian war.
President Volodymyr Zelensky described the drone strike on a bus carrying Belarusian children as one of the Russian provocations that Russia uses to draw the Belarusian people into the Russia-Ukraine war. The statement was made during a media briefing together with Nasry Asfura, the president of Honduras; material from this statement appeared on the president’s Telegram channel.
As for the drone strike on the bus carrying Belarusian children, everyone has already acknowledged it, and international experts, and, it seems to me, also the “Russians” acknowledge that it was not ours. The “Russians” will carry out many different provocations to draw the Belarusian people into this war. This is one of them.
– Volodymyr Zelensky
It is also clarified that the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine refuted Russia’s statements about an allegedly hit on a bus with a children’s football team in Bryansk Oblast. The Security Service of Ukraine has grounds to believe that the strike on the bus with Belarusian citizens in Bryansk Oblast is a special operation by Russian security services.
After these statements, the issue remains under the scrutiny of the international community, and the relevant services promise to provide additional official clarifications on this matter. The analysis of the events continues, and the global community is watching the developments and responding to new details in the case.