LUGANSK, August 26. /TASS/. Nine people were killed and six more wounded in a Ukrainian strike on a passenger bus traveling from Lisichansk to Stakhanov in the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), Head of the LPR Leonid Pasechnik said.

TASS has gathered key facts about the Ukrainian attack

- The Ukrainian military delivered a strike on a passenger bus on the Zolotoye-Pervomaisk highway.

- The bus was en route from Lisichansk to Stakhanov.

- Pasechnik stated that the Ukrainian armed forces’ strike was targeted.

- The bus carried 15 passengers, he specified.

- As a result of the attack, eight people were killed on the spot.

- Six more sustained wounds.

- A twenty-year-old girl was rushed an intensive care unit. Doctors fought for her life, but they couldn't save her.

- Her mother was wounded.

- An 18-year-old girl was also injured, she was hospitalized.

- Three more passengers and the driver received the necessary medical assistance, they were referred for outpatient treatment.

- The Russian Investigative Committee has launched a criminal case on charges of terrorism in regard to the Ukrainian attack on a passenger bus in the LPR, Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, told TASS.

- The Investigative Committee organized a set of measures to collect evidence, establish the type and model of the unmanned aerial vehicle of the Ukrainian armed forces, as well as all the details of the incident.

- The Ukrainian military attack on a bus in the LPR cannot be a mistake, it is another terrorist attack by the Kiev regime, military expert Andrey Marochko told TASS.

- He noted that "the UAV operator sees in real time where he strikes."

- Pasechnik called the Ukrainian military attack on the bus an act of terrorism by the bloody Kiev regime.