🔗 Share this article Airstrike Claims One Life as Ukraine Accuse Russian Forces of Targeting Passenger Trains Two Moscow's unmanned aerial vehicles struck railway cars at a station in the Sumy region of northern Ukraine, claiming one life and leaving roughly 30 injured, officials said on the weekend. “A vicious attack by Russian drones on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region,” posted the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on Telegram, sharing a footage of a wrecked, passenger car on fire and others with their windows blown out. Allegations of Deliberate Targeting Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, accused Russian forces of deliberately carrying out two strikes on civilian trains. “This is one of the most brutal Russian tactics,” he said in a announcement released by his department. The governor of Sumy region, Hryhorov, said that eight individuals had been taken to hospital. Effect on Civilians “Russian forces could not have been unaware that they were targeting non-combatants. This is terrorism, which the international community has a duty to address,” Zelenskyy wrote. Moscow has intensified its airstrikes on Ukraine’s railway infrastructure, striking it nearly daily over the last two months. Russia has consistently refuted aiming at non-military targets in its war in Ukraine, although numerous individuals have been killed by its military. Railway CEO Details Attack In a recorded discussion from a train traveling to the strike site, the CEO of the national railway Pertsovskyi told Reuters that the drones had aimed at train engines, but had also damaged the connected passenger cars. “In essence, they are targeting engines,” he remarked, adding that Russian forces was increasingly deploying this method. He said the affected trains had been a regional passenger train and another train headed to the capital city, Kiev. Attempt to Create Fear The railway executive stated there was exclusively non-military transport at the rail station. He expressed he was convinced this was a deliberate effort to make areas like Shostka, about 50km from the Russian border, unsafe for civilian travel. “They are taking all measures to make frontline and border areas unlivable, so that individuals fear to travel there, afraid to board trains, scared to visit public places, and so that students are reluctant to come back.”