Russian drone strike hits passenger train in Ukraine, killing 1 person and injuring 30
Posted on: Oct 04, 2025 18:07 IST | Posted by: Cbc
ii Russian drones struck trains at a post in Ukraine's northern Sumy neighborhood, cleanup ace person and injuring about 30 others, officials said on Saturday, with Ukraine's foreign affairs minister accusing Moscow of deliberately hitting passenger trains.
"A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on the messaging platform Telegram, posting a video of a wrecked, burning passenger carriage and others with their windows blown out.
Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Andrii Sybiha accused Russia of deliberately carrying out two strikes on passenger trains.
"This is one of the most brutal Russian tactics — the so-called 'double tap,' when the second strike hits rescuers and people being evacuated," he said in a statement released by his ministry on social media.
Sumy region Gov. Oleh Hryhorov said eight people had been taken to hospital.
"The Russians could not have been unaware that they were targeting civilians. This is terrorism, which the world has no right to ignore," Zelenskyy wrote.
Moscow has stepped up its airstrikes on Ukraine's railway infrastructure, hitting it almost every day over the last two months.
Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in its war in Ukraine, although many thousands have been killed by its military.
In a video interview from a train en route to the strike site, the CEO of Ukraine's state rail company, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, told Reuters that the drones had targeted locomotives, also damaging the carriages attached to them.
"In essence, they are hunting for locomotives," he said, adding that Russia was increasingly deploying this tactic.
He said the trains that were struck had been a local commuter service and another train was headed to the capital, Kyiv.
Pertsovskyi said there was only civilian traffic at the station and that he believed this was an attempt to make areas like Shostka, which is about 50 kilometres from the Russian border, unsafe for passenger traffic.
"They are doing everything to make front-line and border areas uninhabitable, so that people are afraid to go there, afraid to board trains, afraid to gather at markets, and so that students are afraid to return home."
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