At least two people were killed and 30 others were injured as two Russian drones struck a train station in Ukraine's northern Sumy region, officials said on Sunday, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accusing Moscow of deliberately targeting civilians.
“A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region. “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 on Telegram app, sharing a video of a destroyed and burning passenger carriage.
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, joined Zelenskin in accusing Russia of deliberately conducting two strikes on passenger trains. “This is one of the most brutal Russian tactics,” Syboiha said in a statement.
Eight people were hospitalized after the attack.In a video interview conducted aboard a train traveling to the site of the attack, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, CEO of Ukraine’s state railway company, told Reuters that the drones had specifically targeted locomotives, though the attached carriages were also damaged.
“They are essentially targeting locomotives,” he said, noting that Russia was using this tactic more frequently. He explained that the affected trains included a local commuter service and another one en route to Kyiv, adding that the Kremlin sought to depopulate the border areas.
Hundreds of missiles and drones struck Ukrainians region on Sunday. Four people were killed in Lviv in the largest air raid on the city since the start of the war. Another one person was killed in southeastern Zaporizhzhia region while Khmelnytskyi, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Odesa were also targeted by Russia. Neighbouring Poland, which is just 70 km away from Lviv city, scrambled fighter jets as a preventive measure against a Russian incursion.
