A Russian drone strike on a passenger train in the Odessa region of southern Ukraine has killed the train driver and his assistant, Ukrainian Railways said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The 340 passengers on board were being evacuated, the state rail operator said. The attack involved a drone, it added.<\/p>\n
The drone operator must have known that this was a civilian train, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on social media. He published a video showing fire and destruction affecting part of the train.<\/p>\n
Zelensky spoke of Russian attacks in 11 regions of the country during the night. He once again called for more air-defence support and greater pressure on Russia.<\/p>\n
Russia has been waging a destructive war against Ukraine for nearly four and a half years. Russian attacks have repeatedly caused deaths and damage to rail services and railway stations.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian drone counter-attacks have reached deep into Russian territory to strike energy facilities and infrastructure seen to support the war effort.<\/p>\n
New Wildberries attack<\/p>\n
Ukrainian forces set fire to an oil refinery and a warehouse belonging to Russia’s largest online retailer, Wildberries, in new drone strikes deep inside Russian territory, the head of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Radiy Khabirov, said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Khabirov said two people had been injured in the city of Salavat and taken to hospital.<\/p>\n
Media also reported a drone strike and a fire at an oil refinery belonging to energy giant Gazprom.<\/p>\n
Khabirov said Russian air defences had shot down 16 of an overall 21 drones, adding that the target of the attack had been a logistics centre.<\/p>\n
Wildberries, whose warehouses have come under Ukrainian attack for weeks, confirmed the strike and the fire, saying the building had been evacuated.<\/p>\n
Russia’s Investigative Committee accused Ukraine of carrying out another “terrorist attack” on civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Ukraine argues that Wildberries serves Russian war aims. The company and the Kremlin have categorically denied this, saying it is civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Commentators see the attacks as an attempt by Kiev to destabilize Russia through mounting economic problems.<\/p>\n
Sevastopol power outage<\/p>\n
Ukrainian drone attacks also left the port city of Sevastopol on the Russian-annexed Crimean Peninsula without power once again, Russian authorities said.<\/p>\n
The Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said the city had been cut off from the electricity supply following a “massive” Ukrainian attack, Russian state news agency TASS reported early on Thursday.<\/p>\n
He said Russian forces were repelling the attack and experts were assessing the damage.<\/p>\n
Kiev has responded to Russia’s invasion with drone strikes on strategically important targets deep inside Russian-held territory, including military facilities and oil and gas infrastructure.<\/p>\n
The strikes are aimed at disrupting fuel supplies to the Russian military and reducing revenues available to Moscow to finance the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian drone strike on a passenger train in the Odessa region of southern Ukraine has killed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[101,212,1582,616,25,623,649,763,26,787,10001,7199],"class_list":["post-27850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-drone-strike","tag-drone-strikes","tag-passenger-train","tag-president-volodymyr-zelensky","tag-russia","tag-russian-forces","tag-russian-territory","tag-southern-ukraine","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian-drone-attacks","tag-ukrainian-railways","tag-wildberries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}