Russian Drone Attack on Shostka Train Station Leaves Dozens Injured
Russian forces carried out a deadly drone strike on the railway station in the northern Ukrainian city of Shostka on Saturday, hitting a passenger train bound for Kyiv and injuring dozens of people.
The Gaze reports this, referring to statements made by Ukrainian officials.
Oleh Hryhorov, head of the Sumy Regional Military Administration, said the drone targeted civilian infrastructure.
“The enemy deliberately struck a passenger train on the Shostka–Kyiv route. Passengers were injured,” Hryhorov wrote on social media.
Emergency crews, medics, and rescue workers are operating at the site, where an emergency coordination center has been deployed. Officials said the scale of damage and the number of victims are still being determined.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published a video from the scene, describing the incident as a deliberate act of terror against civilians.
“A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region. The Russians could not have failed to know they were hitting civilians,” Zelenskyy said. “This is terror that the world has no right to ignore.”
The president confirmed that both Ukrzaliznytsia railway employees and passengers were among the injured.
“Every day Russia takes human lives. Only strength can force them to stop,” he said, urging Europe and the United States to turn their words of solidarity into concrete action.
Vice Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said Russian forces launched a second attack on the station just as evacuation efforts were underway.
“The first strike hit the locomotive of a local train running the Tereshchynska–Novhorod-Siverskyi route. When people began to evacuate, the enemy struck again – this time hitting the electric locomotive of the Kyiv–Shostka train,” Kuleba said on Facebook.
He confirmed that several passengers and railway workers were wounded. Medical teams transported the injured to local hospitals, while other passengers were moved to shelters under the supervision of rescue services.
The attack followed a series of overnight strikes on the Shostka community that destroyed energy facilities, leaving parts of the region without electricity or water supply.
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