The Russian drone strike arrives passengers in Ukraine, killing 1 person and injuring 30

Two Russian drones struck trains in a station in the Ukraine Sumy region, killing a person and injuring around 30 others, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine accused Moscow of having deliberately followed passenger trains on Saturday.

“A shot of brutal Russian drones at Shostka station, in the Sumy region,” wrote Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the Telegram messaging platform, publishing a video of an accidental passenger car and others with their blown windows.

The Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrii Sybiha accused Russia of having deliberately carried out 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 evacuated persons,” he said in a statement published by his ministry on social networks.

The governor of the Sumy region, Oleh Hryhorov, said that eight people had been transported to the hospital.

“The Russians could not ignore that they were targeting civilians. It is terrorism, that the world is not allowed to ignore,” wrote Zelenskyy.

Moscow has intensified its air strikes on Ukrainian rail infrastructure, hitting it almost every day in the past two months.

Russia has repeatedly denied targeting civilians in its war in Ukraine, although several thousand was killed by its soldiers.

Drones “hunt locomotives”

In a video interview from a train en route to the strike site, the CEO of the Ukraine State Railway Company, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, told Reuters that drones had targeted locomotives, also damaging the cars attached to it.

“Essentially, they are looking for locomotives,” he said, adding that Russia was increasingly deploying this tactic.

He said that the trains that had been struck had been a local suburban service and that another train was heading for the capital, Kyiv.

Pertsovskyi said there was only civilian traffic at the station and that he thought it was an attempt to make areas like Shostka, about 50 kilometers from the Russian border, dangerous for passenger traffic.

“They do everything to make the front line and border areas uninhabitable, so that people are afraid of going there, for fear of getting on the trains, for fear of meeting in the markets and that students are afraid to go home.”