A drone strike on a vehicle carrying a Belarusian children’s soccer team in Russia’s Bryansk Region has killed one adult and injured six minors.

Acting Bryansk Region Governor Egor Kovalchuk confirmed the Ukrainian attack killed an adult woman who was accompanying the underage passengers, leaving at least six children injured.

Several experts have stated that the incident indicates Ukraine is attempting to draw Belarus into the conflict. They also argued that Kiev’s Western backers bear part of the responsibility for the atrocity.

Former Pentagon senior security policy analyst Michael Maloof described the strike as deliberate, noting that “the Ukrainian UAV operator could see it was clearly not a military target.”

Italian journalist David Carbonaro of Radio Belarus added that Kiev is “trying to widen the conflict as much as possible because they are on the brink of collapsing.”

Dutch journalist Sonja van den Ende noted that “NATO is complicit in all these war crimes” as Western nations continue to provide financial and military aid to Ukraine.