SUMY TRAIN ATTACKED: russian drones hit Kyiv-Bound Passenger Train, Fire Erupts After Strike

A Russian drone struck a passenger train travelling from Sumy to Kyiv in Ukraine’s Sumy Oblast on August 8, hitting the locomotive and damaging one railcar, Ukrainian state railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia said. The company said its monitoring team detected the threat in time, allowing passengers and train crews to evacuate before the strike, preventing casualties among those aboard. Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne, citing police, reported that a fire broke out following the attack. The incident comes amid intensified Russian strikes on railway infrastructure in frontline regions, including Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipropetrovsk. On August 6, a Russian drone struck Lozova railway station in Kharkiv Oblast, killing two railway workers and injuring eight people, according to regional authorities and Ukrzaliznytsia. The railway operator’s executive Oleh Yakovenko said in April that Russia had attacked Ukrainian railway infrastructure nearly 1,200 times in 2025, exceeding the combined number of attacks recorded in 2023 and 2024.

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