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10/04/2025October 4, 2025
Dozens injured as Russia targets passenger rail station in northern Sumy
Some 30 people were injured Saturday in the northern city of Shostka when a Russian drone slammed into a passenger train parked at the city’s rail station.
In a video of a smoldering rail car, Ukrainian President said that dozens of passengers and railway workers had been injured in the incident, which caused fires and blasted glass and metal across the platform. “A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region,” read a post to the messaging app Telegram.
“The Russians could not have been unaware that they were targeting civilians. This is terrorism, which the world has no right to ignore,” Zelenskyy continued.
Medics and rescue service workers were on the scene.
has conducted near daily strikes on Ukraine’s rail system over the past two months and has generally increased attacks since President Vladimir Putin met with US President in Alaska in mid-August for talks that Trump said were designed to end .
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On Saturday, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy released video of smoldering passenger train cars at the Shostka Railway Station in the country’s north, decrying Russian direct attacks on civilians.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, sparking fires that were later extinguished. That came after Russia again carried out overnight attacks of Ukrainian energy infrastructure that left some 50,000 civilians without power.
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