{"id":551687,"date":"2026-06-17T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=551687"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T10:14:36","slug":"bus-carrying-belarusian-children-s-football-team-comes-under-fire-in-russia-four-children-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/bus-carrying-belarusian-children-s-football-team-comes-under-fire-in-russia-four-children-injured","title":{"rendered":"Bus Carrying Belarusian Children&#8217;s Football Team Comes Under Fire in Russia, Four Children Injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A bus carrying a children&#8217;s football team from Homiel came under a drone strike in Russia&#8217;s Bryansk Region, according to acting regional governor <b>Yegor Kovalchuk<\/b>. The bus was transporting the children to Gelendzhik.<\/p>\n<p>Kovalchuk said the drone was Ukrainian. A woman accompanying the team was killed. Six people, including four children, were injured.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;As a result of the targeted strike, a woman accompanying the team was killed. Six people, including four children, were injured. All victims were promptly taken to hospital, where they received the necessary medical assistance,&#8221;<\/i><\/em> Kovalchuk <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/E_V_Kovalchuk\/702\">wrote<\/a> on Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>The bus passengers are expected to be returned home in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bus carrying a children&#8217;s football team from Homiel came under a drone strike in Russia&#8217;s Bryansk Region, according to acting regional governor Yegor Kovalchuk. The bus was transporting the children to Gelendzhik. Kovalchuk said the drone was Ukrainian. A woman accompanying the team was killed. Six people, including four children, were injured. &#8220;As a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":551686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a32739129958.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Bus Carrying Belarusian Children\u2019s Football Team Comes Under Fire in Russia, Four Children Injured"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284,143094],"tags":[143122],"class_list":["post-551687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","category-incident","tag-rossija"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}