Russian forces attacked the Kharkiv-Izyum passenger train in the Kharkiv region with a Shahed drone on Wednesday, Sept. 9, sparking a fire and injuring seven people.The Izyum Military Administration reported that the strike occurred at around 10 a.m.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.A Russian Shahed drone struck the rear of the Kharkiv-Izyum train at a railway station near the village of Iskra, causing a fire.Initial reports from the city authorities read that six people were injured.Later, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, the chairman of the board of Ukraine’s state railway operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, clarified that the Kharkiv-Izyum suburban train had stopped to evacuate passengers, which helped save the staff and passengers from the worst of the attack.“However, the debris was scattered over a large area. Seven people – railway workers and passengers – were injured, mostly, fortunately, with minor injuries from the debris,” he added.
Russian forces have repeatedly targeted civilian railway infrastructure and passenger trains in the Kharkiv region.In late August, a Russian drone struck a railway station in Lozova district where a train had stopped to evacuate people. The attack killed two women and injured five others.Recent attacks on passenger trainsOn Sept. 8, Russian forces targeted a Kyiv–Sumy passenger train with two Shahed drones near Sumy. An early warning, however, allowed everyone aboard to evacuate before the strikes.Ukrzaliznytsia said its monitoring team detected the threat and stopped the train at a station before the attack. All passengers, as well as the train and locomotive crews, were evacuated safely.
