A Russian drone attack on a bus in northeastern Ukraine killed at least nine people and injured seven others, Ukrainian officials said Saturday, just hours after the two countries met for the first direct peace talk in three years.

A family and pension-aged women were among the victims of a strike by a Russian Lancet attack drone on Saturday, said local authorities and President Zelensky.

Russia launched a drone strike in Sumy Oblast in the early morning of May 17, killing nine people and injuring four more. The drone targeted a shuttle bus that was transporting civilians near the city of Bilopillia at 6:17 a.