Two Russian drones attacked trains in a station in the region of northern Ukraine, killing a person and hurting another 30, authorities said on Saturday, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine accused Moscow of deliberately hitting passenger trains.
“A brutal attack by Russian drones at the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region,” wrote Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Telegram, publishing a video of a destroyed and burning passenger car and others with their exploited windows.
The Foreign Minister of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha, accused Russia of deliberately performing two attacks on passenger trains.
“This is one of the most brutal Russian tactics: the so -called” double tap “, when the second strike hits rescuers and evacuated people,” he said in a statement published by his ministry on social networks.
The governor of the Sumy region, Oleh Hryhorov, said eight people had been taken to the hospital.
“The Russians could not have been wise that they were attacked to civilians. This is terrorism, that the world has no right to ignore,” Zelenskiy wrote.
Moscow has intensified its air attacks on the railway infrastructure of Ukraine, hitting it almost every day in the last two months.
Russia has repeatedly denied attacking civilians in their war in Ukraine, although their military has murdered thousands of thousands.
Drones hunted by locomotives
In a video interview from a route train to the strike site, said the CEO of the State Railway Company of Ukraine, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi Reuters that the drones had directed locomotives, also damaging the carriages united to them.
“In essence, they are looking for locomotives,” he said, adding that Russia was increasingly displaying this tactic.
He said that the train coup had been a local vicinity service and another train went to the capital, Kyiv.
The railway chief added that there was only civil traffic at the station, and that he believed that this was an attempt to make areas like Shostka, which is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the Russian border, insecure for passenger traffic.
“They are doing everything possible so that the frontline and border areas are not uninhabitable, so people are afraid to go there, fear the trains of addressing, fear gathering in the markets, and so that students are afraid of returning home.”
