EIGHT DEAD AS RUSSIAN STRIKES TARGET PASSENGER TRAIN IN UKRAINE
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Russian strikes in Ukraine have killed at least eight people, including victims of an attack on a civilian passenger train, Ukrainian authorities reported on Monday.
Moscow has continued targeting Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure, even as the United States urges Kyiv to pursue a peace agreement with the Kremlin.
In the embattled eastern city of Kramatorsk, three people were killed, according to the head of the city’s military administration, as Russian forces advance on the area.
In the nearby town of Druzhkivka, the head of the wider Donetsk region—claimed by Russia in 2022 alongside three other Ukrainian regions—reported two deaths and 13 injuries.
In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, the body of a 55-year-old man was recovered from rubble, and later Monday a drone strike hit a moving train, killing a 75-year-old man and wounding nine others, Kyiv and local officials confirmed.
“The locomotive crew immediately stopped the train. The passengers were evacuated and given first aid,” said Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba.
Last month, Ukrainian Railways CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi noted that the increase in Russian strikes on train infrastructure represents “an attempt to effectively cut certain regions of Ukraine.”
Officials also reported the death of a woman, born in 1937, in the northern Chernigiv region, near the border with Russia.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the conflict has become the deadliest in Europe since World War II, resulting in hundreds of thousands of military and civilian casualties on both sides.
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