One dead and several injured after 'savage' Russian drone strike on Ukrainian railway station, Zelenskyy says

At least one person has died, and several others injured, in a Russian drone strike on a Ukrainian railway station, the country's state emergency services has said.

Two trains were hit when Shostka station, in the Sumy region, was targeted on Saturday, the head of Ukraine's railways, Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, said in a Facebook post.

Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the attack as "savage".

He said there were at least 30 victims, but this number was revised by Ukraine's state emergency services.

It said one person died and seven people, including three children, were injured in the attack. Local prosecutors said the person who had died was a 71-year-old man who was found in one of the train carriages.

"In the Shostka community, the enemy attacked a railway station, causing one of the passenger cars to catch fire.

"While extinguishing the fire, rescuers came under repeated fire, but fortunately none of them were injured," the emergency services said.

It said the fire caused by the attack was eventually extinguished.

Sumy regional governor Oleh Hryhorov said a train heading to Kyiv had been hit and that medics and rescuers were working on the scene.

Mr Zelenskyy and the governor posted pictures from the scene that show a passenger carriage on fire.

The head of the local district administration, Oksana Tarasiuk, told Ukraine's public broadcaster the strikes were a "despicable attack aimed at stopping communication with our frontline communities".

While Mr Zelenskyy's top aide, Andriy Yermak, accused Russia of deliberately targeting the station and train, saying it was carrying out a "war against civilians".

Moscow has stepped up its air strike campaign on Ukraine's railway infrastructure, hitting it almost every day over the last two months.

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They have also targeted energy infrastructure with a massive bombardment on Ukraine's gas production facilities earlier this week.

Overnight into Saturday, Russian drones and missiles pounded Ukraine's power grid, a Ukrainian energy firm said.

The strike damaged energy facilities near Chernihiv, a northern city west of Shostka that lies close to the Russian border, and sparked blackouts set to affect some 50,000 households, according to regional operator Chernihivoblenergo.

On Friday, Ukraine's natural gas facilities run by the state-owned Naftogaz Group suffered the biggest attack since the war started in February 2022.

Russia fired a total of 381 drones and 35 missiles at Ukraine on Friday, according to Ukraine's air force, in what officials said was an attempt to wreck the Ukrainian power grid ahead of winter.

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