Russian efforts to use glide bomb strikes to shape the battlefield in the Donetsk Oblast Fortress Belt resulted in mass civilian casualties on October 8.

Ongoing Russian efforts to use glide bomb strikes to shape the battlefield in the Donetsk Oblast Fortress Belt resulted in mass civilian casualties on October 8.

On October 8, Russia attacked Kramatorsk, a frontline city in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The strike was likely carried out using a guided bomb.

Some of those killed in a Russian strike on two buses in Kramatorsk have yet to be identified due to the severity of their injuries.

A Russian glide bomb strike on two minibuses in Kramatorsk killed 33 people on the morning of Oct. 8, Ukraine's emergency service (DSNS) said.

Twenty-two more people were injured in the Russian attack, Donetsk regional governor Vadym Filashkin said.

Thursday’s devastating Russian strike on Kramatorsk, where a guided aerial bomb hit two passenger buses operating in the city... At least 33 people were killed and 18 wounded, according to later reports from local authorities.

The Defense Forces of Ukraine are trying to disrupt the occupiers' plan to capture the Slaviansk agglomeration.

Attempts at mass attacks and infiltration are sufficiently successfully suppressed, which does not allow the enemy to implement their plan.

The UN Monitoring Mission also documented attacks resulting in a high number of casualties in Kramatorsk on 8 October