Russian strikes have killed at least eight people in Ukraine during an attack on a civilian passenger train, Ukrainian authorities said on Monday.
Three people were killed in the embattled eastern city of Kramatorsk, a Ukrainian stronghold that Russian forces are advancing towards, the head of the city’s military administration said.
The head of the wider Donetsk region, which the Kremlin claimed to have annexed in 2022 alongside three more Ukrainian regions, said two people were killed, and 13 more were wounded in the nearby town of Druzhkivka.
The body of a 55-year-old man was found in the rubble of a house in the central Dnipropetrovsk region, where, later on Monday, a drone attack on a moving train killed a 75-year-old man and wounded nine more, Kyiv and local officials said in separate announcements.
“The locomotive crew immediately stopped the train. The passengers were evacuated and given first aid,” Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said.
Ukrainian Railways CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi told AFP last month that an uptick in Russian strikes on train infrastructure marked “an attempt to effectively cut certain regions of Ukraine”.
