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--> }} The Volnovakha bus attack was an attack on a highway checkpoint near the village of Buhas outside of the Volnovakha municipality in the Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine on 13 January 2015. It resulted in the deaths of 12 passengers of an intercity bus and injuries to 18 others in the area. The attack was the largest single loss of life since the signing of the Minsk Protocol in September 2014, which attempted to halt the ongoing War in Donbass. The incident has been labeled an "act of terror" by both the Ukrainian authorities as well as the rebels. Initially separatists took responsibility for this incident, which they thought was a successful destruction of the Ukrainian roadblock. After the information about civilian bus hit the news, they denied having "even technical possibilities" to shell that area. OSCE Special Monitoring Mission inspecting the place of incident assessed from its study of five craters that they were caused by "by rockets fired from a north-north-eastern direction". The checkpoint named "Buhas" is located on the H20 highway at the intersection with another road accessing the city of Volnovakha. Beside Buhas and Volnovakha, there also is a village of Blyzhnie. ==Events== On 13 January, a bus was carrying civilians moving northward to Donetsk from the village of Zlatoustivka (Zlatoustovka) and passing a small city of Volnovakha on the Donetsk-Mariupol road (H20 highway). Approaching the zone controlled by the Donetsk People's Republic, the bus stopped at the checkpoint for passport control. Soon thereafter the checkpoint was fired upon with multiple hits one which landed next to the line of vehicles in which bus was located. Shrapnel from the round torn the bus through completely disabling, while killing and injuring several passengers. Ten people perished on site, while two more died soon after were brought to hospital of Volnovakha.〔 Video from a tower camera near the checkpoint shows number of explosions just north of the checkpoint, while another video from a private car that was in the line at checkpoint shows an explosion right next to the road. At same time in internet started to circulate photos that the checkpoint could have been set with mines. The Ukrainian government's official version states that pro-Russian militants tried to shell positions near the Buhas checkpoint, which is from the city of Donetsk. Donetsk Prosecutor's Office reported that militants fired more than 40 shells on the highway despite knowing the fact that it had been used only by civilians. An official of the Donetsk Interior Ministry, said "It was a direct hit on an intercity bus". According to the head of the main command center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Bohdan Bondar, the attack was launched from the center of Dokuchaievsk (city surrounded by the Volnovakha Raion), which is less than away, as a provocation. When the attack happened, "there were reporters of local and Russian TV channels… who came there to film how our troops will open a return fire at the center of the city". The Ukrainian military labelled the incident a "provocation." Despite this, Ukrainian forces did not return fire. Donetsk People's Republic denied any involvement and said that the attack might have been staged by Ukrainian army. Andrei Purgin, a Donetsk Republic party politician, said that "We don't have the capability to shell this checkpoint either from the side of Telmanove or Yelenivka. The Ukrainian side has to figure out what has happened deep in its territory. It's very far from the contact line". Denis Pushilin, another DPR leader said that nearest rebel artillery was 50 km away, too far to reach the attack site. At the same time, the NewsFront published a video where some militant leader boasting about a successful attack on Hranitne from Telmanove. The attack on Hranitne resulted in death of a 2-year-old child. An OSCE report confirmed that a Grad rocket from north-nort-east〔 had struck the bus, and said that DPR forces, the Russian Armed Forces, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces would conduct a joint investigation into the incident. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko blamed the attack on separatist insurgents, and declared a day of national mourning. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Volnovakha bus attack」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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