30 Killed In Russian Strike On Ukraine Railway Station : Zelenskyy

4th October 2025 at 5:48 PM

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Dozens were injured in a "savage" Russian drone strike Saturday on a Ukrainian railway station, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Kyiv : Dozens were injured in a “savage” Russian drone strike Saturday on a Ukrainian railway station, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. At least 30 people sustained injuries, Zelenskyy said of the attack on Shostka, a city northeast of Kyiv that lies some 70 kilometers from the Russian border.

All emergency services are already on the scene and have begun helping people. All information about the injured is being established, he said in a post on X. Russia struck two passenger trains in quick succession, first targeting a local service and then one bound for Kyiv, said Oleksiy Kuleba, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and reconstruction minister.

Medical teams have already transported the injured to hospitals and are providing necessary assistance. Others (who were at the site) are in shelters overseen by rescuers, Kuleba wrote on Telegram on Saturday. He said an air raid alert was ongoing at the station.

Local Gov.Oleh Hryhorov said a train bound for Kyiv had been hit. Both Zelenskyy and the governor posted what they said were images from the scene showing a passenger carriage on fire. Moscow has recently stepped up airstrikes on Ukraine’s railway network, which is essential for military transport, hitting it almost every day over the past two months.

As in previous years since the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the Kremlin has also ramped up attacks on Ukraine’s power grid, in what Kyiv calls an attempt to weaponize the approaching winter by denying civilians heat, light and running water. The day before, Russia launched its biggest attack of the war against natural gas facilities run by Ukraine’s state-owned Naftogaz Group, Ukrainian officials said.

Overnight into Saturday, Russian forces launched a further 109 drones and three ballistic missiles at Ukraine, the Ukrainian military reported. It said 73 of the drones were shot down or sent off course. Since Russia’s February 2022 invasion of its neighbor, each year as winter approaches, Russian forces have blasted Ukraine’s power grid.