{"id":553370,"date":"2026-06-23T11:42:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=553370"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T09:53:13","slug":"russia-s-investigative-committee-accuses-ukrainian-drone-forces-commander-over-attack-on-belarusian-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/russia-s-investigative-committee-accuses-ukrainian-drone-forces-commander-over-attack-on-belarusian-bus","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee Accuses Ukrainian Drone Forces Commander Over Attack on Belarusian Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee has <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/sledcom_press\/30205\">said<\/a> it has identified those allegedly responsible for a drone attack on a Belarusian bus in Russia&#8217;s Bryansk region.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the statement by Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee does not describe the specific role of the accused individuals and provides no evidence of their alleged involvement in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, those allegedly involved include <b>Robert Brovdi<\/b>, commander of Ukraine&#8217;s Unmanned Systems Forces, and <b>Oleh Ivashchenko<\/b>, head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine&#8217;s Defence Ministry.<\/p>\n<p><em><i>&#8220;The investigation has established the involvement in this crime of the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine&#8217;s Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert Brovdi, and the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine&#8217;s Defence Ministry, Oleh Ivashchenko, who provided targeting and issued the unlawful order to attack civilian vehicles on Russian territory&#8221;<\/i><\/em>, the Russian authorities said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Investigative Committee also accused three Ukrainian servicemen of directly carrying out the attack: <b>Dmytro Tkachenko<\/b> (the Khymera unmanned systems unit of the State Border Guard Service&#8217;s 105th Border Detachment), <b>Ihor Zhukov<\/b> (the Shkval rapid response border commandant&#8217;s office of the State Border Guard Service&#8217;s 7th Border Detachment), and <b>Vladyslav Naum<\/b> (the 73rd Naval Special Operations Centre). The three servicemen have been formally charged under Part 3 of Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee has said it has identified those allegedly responsible for a drone attack on a Belarusian bus in Russia&#8217;s Bryansk region. It should be noted that the statement by Russia&#8217;s Investigative Committee does not describe the specific role of the accused individuals and provides no evidence of their alleged involvement in the incident. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":553369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a3a578da54f3.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Russia\u2019s Investigative Committee Accuses Ukrainian Drone Forces Commander Over Attack on Belarusian Bus"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553370","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=553370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}