Punjab, Oct. 9 -- Russian strikes on two buses in eastern Ukraine killed more than 30 people, taking the civilian death toll from two days of attacks to 78. UN human rights chief Volker Turk condemned the strikes, which hit near Kramatorsk, close to the front line.
The buses
Buses are not infrastructure in the sense that a substation or a bridge is. They are not dual-use, they carry no military value, and they are full of people who had not left. A strike on two of them near the front is the kind of event that gets individually condemned by the UN human rights office because it is difficult to frame as anything else.
The wider campaign
Moscow has intensified strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, and outages in Kyiv are worsening. ...