A Russian drone strike has hit a passenger train at a station in Ukraine's northern Sumy region, injuring dozens of people including passengers, according to regional governor Oleh Hryhorov and local authorities.

Mr Hryhorov claimed the Russian attack on Saturday local time had been a deliberate strike on the station in Shostka, north-east of Kyiv, and that the train hit had been travelling from the Ukrainian capital.

No figure was given for the number of casualties, but the governor posted a picture of a burning passenger carriage and said medics and rescuers were working on the scene.

"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 oth

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