Russian drone sets electric train on fire in Sumy Oblast

Nation

9 February, 08:35 PM

Russian forces struck a railway station in Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast with a drone on Feb. 9, setting an electric train on fire, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported.

Emergency responders quickly extinguished the blaze. No casualties were reported.

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Earlier the same day, a separate Russian attack damaged railway infrastructure in Sumy Oblast, affecting a locomotive and overhead contact lines.

Ukrainian Railways warned of possible delays on the Sumy–Kyiv and Sumy–Kharkiv routes, as well as changes to regional and suburban services.

The latest incidents follow a Russian strike on railway infrastructure in Chernihiv Oblast overnight into Feb. 8 that forced cancellation of some train services.

Overnight into Feb. 9, Russia launched 11 Iskander-M ballistic missiles from Bryansk Oblast and 149 strike drones (Shahed, Gerber, Italmas and other types, including about 90 Shaheds) at Ukraine.

An energy facility near the Novovolynsk municipality in Volyn Oblast was hit, leaving more than 80,000 households without power. Critical infrastructure in the city is powered by generators.

In Odesa, a Russian drone attack killed one man and injured two others. In Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv Oblast, a woman and a 10-year-old child were killed in a separate drone strike.

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