Person killed in drone attack as Ukraine accuses Russia of targeting passenger trains | Ukraine

Authorities said on Saturday that two Russian drones hit a train, killed one person and injured about 30 people at a station in the northern Sumy region of Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote in Telegram a ruthless Russian drone strike at the train station in Shostka in Sumy region ..

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha accused Russia of deliberately accusing two strikes on passenger trains.

“This is one of the most ruthless Russian tactics,” he said in a statement published by the Ministry.

Oleh Hryhorov, the governor of the Sumy region, said eight people were hospitalized.

Zelenskyy wrote, “The Russians could not be aware of their targeting.

Moscow accelerated air strikes in Ukraine’s railway infrastructure and hit almost every day for the last two months.

Although Russia was killed by the army of thousands, Russia has repeatedly rejected the targeting civilians in the war in Ukraine.

In a video interview from a train to the strike area, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, CEO of Ukraine’s State Railway Company, said that he targeted the locomotives of the drones to Reuters, but damaged cars.

“In essence, they are hunting for locomotives,” he said that Russia is increasingly deploying this tactic.

The authority said the trains were a local suburban service and that there was another train to the capital Kiev.

Railway boss said there was only civilian traffic at the station. He said he believed that it was an attempt to make areas that are insecure for passenger traffic from the Russian border, such as Shostka.

“They do everything to make Frontsine and border areas uninhabitable, so people are afraid of going there, they are afraid to ride on trains, they are afraid to gather in the markets, and the students are afraid to return home.”