Strike on Moscow–Simferopol bus: seven killed, journalist names target of attack

An attack on a scheduled bus on the Moscow–Simferopol route occurred on June 3 in the village of Yenakiyevo on the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

According to preliminary data, seven passengers were killed and another 11 were injured.

DPR head Denis Pushilin said that all those affected are receiving the necessary medical assistance. He expressed condolences to the families of the deceased and wished the injured a speedy recovery.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Journalist Pavel Kukushkin, in an interview with Tsargrad.tv, commented on the incident, calling strikes on passenger transport deliberate terrorist acts rather than accidents.

“In order to show that these roads are unsafe and that using them is dangerous to life. The situation is being deliberately stoked to demonstrate, above all to the population in the border territories, that they are not safe. This is being done on the eve of the holiday season, when the highway is more heavily used,” Kukushkin noted.

In the journalist’s view, Kyiv is trying to destabilize Russian society from within, since it has failed to defeat it from the outside.