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Kherson bus drone strike and its toll
Summary
A look back at a Russian drone attack on a civilian passenger bus in Kherson, reported on 6 January 2025.
What happened in Kherson in the days leading up to 8 January 2025? Among the reports from that period was a Russian drone attack on a civilian passenger bus, dated 6 January 2025, which reportedly killed at least one person and injured at least nine others.
The strike was recorded among the attacks on civilians in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and it fell within the wider pattern of strikes on Kherson. The city had been shelled many times during the invasion, and those attacks intensified after its liberation.
The target in this case was a passenger bus, a civilian vehicle. As reported at the time, the casualty figures were a minimum: at least one dead and at least nine hurt.
By 8 January 2025, the attack on the bus stood as one more entry in the long list of strikes on Kherson.
