Kyiv: Russian drones struck a Ukrainian railway station on Saturday, killing one and wounding dozens, as Moscow stepped up strikes on Ukraine’s rail and power grids ahead of the fourth winter since its all-out invasion.
At least 30 people were injured in the “savage” attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said following the attack on Shostka, a city northeast of Kyiv that lies some 70 kilometres from the Russian border.
Hours later, local prosecutors said that a 71-year-old man was found dead in one of the wrecked carriages.
Russia struck two passenger trains in quick succession, first targeting a local commuter service and then one bound for Kyiv, said Oleksiy Kuleba, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and reconstruction minister. He said the second drone hit while an evacuation