Drone strikes on passenger train in Kharkiv eastern Ukraine, k*lling four

At least four people have been k*lled in a Russian drone attack on a passenger train in the eastern Ukrainian province of Kharkiv on Monday. President Zelensky made it clear.

Mr Zelensky said: “The attack on private trains is a purely terrorist act.” Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Kuleba also denounced it as a “direct act of terrorism by Russia.”

According to authorities, the passenger train that was attacked left from the Chunghrine in western Ukraine and the border with Slovakia, departing from the Chunghs, which is close to the border with Slovakia, and was heading towards Balbinkove in the eastern Kharkiv province. It was attacked by three drones, and one of them hit the vehicle directly. There were 155 passengers on board the train.

On the same day, it was also revealed that the operation of the Ukrainian state gas company Naftogaz in the west was suspended due to a fire caused by an attack by Russian forces.

According to Naftus, the attack on the infrastructure of Natogas by the Russian army was the 15th since the beginning of the year. Naftgas did not provide details of the facilities that carried out the attack, but emergency services reported on Monday that a fire had occurred after a facility in the western part of Libi ⁠u state was attacked, and in Brody, the state, local authorities warned residents about contamination by the burning of petroleum products.

Brody is located at the point where the Dordičiba pipeline, which supplies Russian crude oil to Eastern European countries, intersects with another pipeline connecting an oil terminal on the coast of the Black Sea.