Drone attack closes Dzhankoy station, disrupting Russia’s Crimea military traffic
A carriage of the St. Petersburg-Sevastopol train that was reportedly hit by UAV debris. (Photo: ЧП Крым / Instagram)
Ukrainian drones struck the Dzhankoy railway station in
occupied Crimea on June 8 while a large number of Russian troops were there,
and the station has remained closed since then, Denys Chystikov, deputy
representative of Ukraine’s president in Crimea, told Radio NV.
“At the time of the attack, Russian service members were
rotating through the station. Some had arrived, others were being loaded aboard
— this was an attack specifically on Russian service members. And it was so
successful that the station is now completely closed, and it has been announced
that trains are only passing through in transit and are not stopping,” he said.
Chystikov said there is currently no passenger rail service
in Crimea, with passengers being made to get off at Kerch station.
At the same time, Ukrainian authorities are receiving
reports that soldiers in Russia’s occupation army are constantly being moved
into and out of Crimea.
“They are now trying to hide these movements by using
civilian vehicles so they do not draw attention to themselves,” Chystikov said.
“They are avoiding the main routes. Local residents say many of these
movements, including in occupied Kherson Oblast, are taking place not along
Crimea’s main roads, but along the Arabat Spit.”
Russian media claimed Ukrainian UAVs attacked a military
echelon at Dzhankoy station on June 2 and that debris supposedly hit a St.
Petersburg-Sevastopol passenger train. Afterward, the station was listed as a
technical stop, and trains no longer stopped there.
On June 8, Oleg Kryuchkov, an adviser to the so-called head
of Crimea, said a Ukrainian drone had attacked the locomotive of a
Moscow-Simferopol train. The Russian propagandist claimed the assistant
locomotive driver was killed, the driver was wounded and passengers were
unharmed. Neither Ukrainian nor Russian official military sources commented on
the reported strike.
Russian occupation forces also closed the Chonhar checkpoint
in Kherson Oblast on June 7 after a Ukrainian drone attack.
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