Russian Drone Attack Kills 9 on Shuttle Bus in Ukraine

A Russian drone attack killed at least nine people on Saturday after hitting a shuttle bus carrying civilians in the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine, according to local residents and Ukrainian authorities.

The deadly strike came only hours after Ukrainian and Russian officials sat down face to face for the first time in more than three years in Istanbul.

At the brief meeting, the two sides agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners each soon. But the talks and the frenetic swirl of diplomatic activity leading up to them did nothing to bring the two sides closer to negotiating an end to the war and easing the daily carnage, with soldiers on both sides being killed and injured on the front every day, and the civilian toll steadily rising.