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What the Marhanets bus strike left behind
Summary
A retrospective on a drone attack in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and the diplomatic backdrop of that week.
What happened on 23 April 2025 in Marhanets, in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Oblast? Russian forces launched a drone strike on a bus there, killing nine people. The attack was listed among attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The strike came days after a statement on peace efforts. On 18 April 2025, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration was ready to abandon diplomatic efforts and "move on" if the war could not be ended in "a matter of days".
The two events sat side by side in the same week: a stated American readiness to step back from negotiations, and a deadly drone attack on a civilian vehicle in a Ukrainian town.
