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Russian strike hits train station in Ukraine, killing one and injuring 30

05 October 2025 01:47 (UTC +04:00)

Two Russian drones struck trains at a station in Ukraine's northern Sumy region, killing one person and injuring about 30 others, officials said on Saturday, with Ukraine's foreign minister accusing Moscow of deliberately hitting passenger trains, APA reports citing Reuters.

"A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram, posting a video of a wrecked, burning passenger carriage and others with their windows blown out.

Ukraine's foreign minister Andrii Sybiha accused Russia of deliberately conducting two strikes on passenger trains.

"This is one of the most brutal Russian tactics — the so-called ‘double tap’, when the second strike hits rescuers and people being evacuated," he said in a statement released by his ministry on social media.

Sumy region governor Oleh Hryhorov said eight people had been taken to hospital.

"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.