Drone attacks kill three, target bus in Russia's Belgorod region

July 28 (Reuters) - Ukrainian ‌drone strikes ​killed ​three people on Tuesday in Russia's border region of Belgorod and 19 more were ‌injured in an attack on a bus ⁠denounced by the Foreign Ministry in Moscow.

Regional authorities said a ‌drone strike on a ‌business in a village near the border killed two people. Another person was killed in an ​attack on a town outside the region's main city, also called Belgorod.

The bus came under ⁠fire in the town of Shebekino, near the Ukrainian border, and ​all but one of those injured were sent to hospital for treatment.

Moscow has accused ​Ukraine of staging systematic attacks ‌on buses in different Russian regions.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said the ⁠latest strike showed Ukraine was directing attacks on public transport "with a maniacal persistence, taking revenge on ordinary people ⁠for growing failures at the front."

Russian-installed authorities in occupied parts ​of eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region said five people were injured on Tuesday in what they said was a Ukrainian ‌drone strike on a bus.

Russian authorities also blamed Ukraine for an attack last ‌month on a bus carrying Belarusian children to ⁠a holiday site, which ‌killed a woman ​and injured six children.

Ukraine's military rejected the accusation as false.

(Reporting by ReutersEditing by Rod ‌Nickel)

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