US EditionRussian Drones Strike Trains in Ukraine
The strikes injured about 30 people and targeted locomotives to disrupt civilian rail traffic, with attacks on railway infrastructure escalating nearly daily for two months, officials said.
- On Saturday, Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said two Russian drones struck trains at Shostka, Sumy region, killing one person and injuring about 30 others.
- Moscow has intensified strikes on railway infrastructure, hitting Ukraine's railway infrastructure almost daily over the last two months, while Russian forces launched 109 drones and three ballistic missiles overnight.
- Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, CEO of Ukraine's state rail company, said `In essence, they are hunting for locomotives,` and confirmed the trains hit included a local commuter service and a Kyiv-bound train.
- The strikes knocked out power in Shostka, a town with more than 70,000 residents before the war, and damaged energy facilities near Chernihiv, sparking blackouts for about 50,000 households.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote `A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region,` and added `The Russians could not have been unaware that they were targeting civilians. This is terrorism, which the world has no right to ignore.
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Russia strikes train station in Ukraine killing one, injuring 30
Two Russian drones struck trains at a station in Ukraine's northern Sumy region, killing one person and injuring about 30 others, officials said on Saturday, with Ukraine's foreign minister accusing Moscow of deliberately hitting passenger trains. "A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram, posting a video of a wrecked, burning passenger carriage and ot…
At least 1 dead and dozens injured as Russian drones strike a Ukrainian railway station - The Boston Globe
At least 30 people were wounded in the “savage” attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said following the attack on Shostka, a city in the Sumy region northeast of Kyiv,
Russian drones hit a train in Schostka near Sumy. A man died, 30 people were injured.
This afternoon, Russian troops attacked the city of Shostka, launching massive UAV strikes. 1 person was killed, about 30 injured, including three children, eight hospitalized as a result of the attack on the railway station
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