Key points
- Strike on the suburban Kharkiv–Izium train – 7 injured, mostly minor wounds.
- Railway staff and passengers were injured during evacuation near the first carriage.
- The evacuation was announced in advance, allowing people to be moved out of the impact zone before the arrival of the strike.
In Kharkiv region, a Russian strike during the evacuation of passengers from the suburban Kharkiv–Izium train caused 7 people to be injured. This was reported by the head of the board of JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” Oleksandr Pertsovskyi.
Railway staff and train passengers sustained broken injuries. The wounds were mostly minor.
The strike occurred near the first carriage during the evacuation, which had been announced in advance. This allowed staff and passengers to be moved out of the impact zone before the arrival of the strike.
The enemy continues to stealthily hunt passenger trains, and the time between threat detection and strike is sometimes measured in minutes.
– “Ukrzaliznytsia”.
“Ukrzaliznytsia” noted that it is intensifying monitoring of the security situation to preemptively stop trains and evacuate passengers during Russian attacks.
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