A passenger train with 340 people onboard was attacked in Ukraine's Odesa region on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed, saying the train's driver and his assistant were killed in the strike.
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Zelenskyy said a Russian drone struck the locomotive of the passenger train. He said the target was a civilian train and that the operator of the drone could not have been unaware of its nature. The claims have not been independently verified.
“Today in the Odesa region, the Russians once again destroyed an ordinary passenger train locomotive with a jet-powered drone. There were 340 people on the train,” Zelenskyy said in a post on X.
“As of now, unfortunately, we know that the locomotive engineer and his assistant were killed in the strike,” he added, offering condolences to their families.
