“There was an explosion on the bridge on the highway while the Klimov-Moscow train was moving, which had 388 passengers on board,” Bryansk Gov.
Aleksandr Bogomaz said during an interview on the Rossiya-24 TV channel, as quoted by the state-run TASS news agency.
“The blowing up of the bridge and the derailment of the passenger train in the Bryansk region indicate that Ukraine is controlled by a terrorist group,” he wrote.
“As a result of an explosion on the railway track, the train with fuel tanks and freight cars derailed,” the GUR said in a statement.
Ukrainian strikes in the Russian border regions of Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod have become commonplace over more than three years of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
LONDON — A railway bridge collapsed and a train derailed overnight in the western Bryansk region of Russia, killing at least seven people and injuring 66 more after what one local official described as “an explosion” on the route.
According to train operator Moscow Railway, the 68 passenger train derailed “due to the collapse of the superstructure of the road bridge as a result of illegal interference in transport operations” while it was en route from the Belgorod border town of Klimov to Moscow. “.”.
“There was an explosion on the bridge on the highway while the Klimov-Moscow train was moving, which had 388 passengers on board,” Bryansk Gov. According to the state-run TASS news agency, Alexander Bogomaz stated this in an interview on the Rossiya-24 TV channel.
Seven people were killed and 66 injured, 47 of whom were hospitalized, according to Bogomaz’s Telegram post.
A passing freight train was derailed overnight when a second railway bridge collapsed in the Russian region of Kursk, which is another border region that borders Bryansk to the north.
Alexander Khinshtein, the acting regional governor, stated, “A portion of the train fell onto a road underneath the bridge.”. He added that at least one employee was hurt.
On Telegram, Andrei Klishas, the head of Russia’s Federation Council Committee on State Construction, accused Ukraine of being behind the fatal Bryansk incident.
The derailment of the passenger train in the Bryansk region and the explosion of the bridge show that a terrorist organization controls Ukraine, he wrote.
President Vladimir Putin “was briefed on the situation,” according to a statement from the Kremlin, which also said that the Emergencies Ministry and the Federal Security Service provided updates.
The head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council’s Counter-Disinformation Center, Andriy Kovalenko, denied any Ukrainian involvement in a Telegram post, tying the accusations to Monday’s scheduled peace negotiations in Istanbul, Turkey.
Kovalenko wrote, “It appears that the Kremlin is setting the stage for the talks to be disrupted.”. “Ukraine has no reason to interfere with the summit in Istanbul. Conversely, Ukraine long ago consented to a ceasefire. Thus, a World War II-style rail war is a defense of Russian propaganda rather than a tool of our strategy. “,”.
While sharing reports of arson and other sabotage operations against Russian railways, Ukrainian intelligence services have previously claimed responsibility for attacks on Russian railway networks that were meant to disrupt Moscow’s military logistics.
GUR, the Ukrainian military intelligence agency, reported on Sunday that a freight train traveling toward occupied Crimea was derailed by an explosion that occurred on a railway in occupied southern Ukraine on Saturday night.
The GUR said in a statement that the train carrying the freight cars and fuel tanks derailed due to an explosion on the railway track. “The main route of supply for Muscovites in the occupied areas of Crimea and Zaporizhzhia was cut off. “.”.
The GUR statement also stated that “the fight against the military logistics of the Russian occupiers continues.”.
After Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor for more than three years, Ukrainian strikes in the Russian border regions of Bryansk, Kursk, and Belgorod have become routine. Among these have been Ukrainian forces’ ground incursions, particularly in the Kursk region.
