Dozens injured in savage Russian drone strike on Ukrainian railway station

Dozens had been injured in a “savage” Russian drone strike on Saturday (October 4, 2025) on a Ukrainian railway station, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned, as Moscow stepped up strikes on Ukraine’s rail and energy grids forward of the fourth winter since its all-out invasion.

At least 30 folks sustained accidents, Mr. Zelenskyy mentioned of the assault on Shostka, a metropolis northeast of Kyiv that lies some 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the Russian border.

“All emergency companies are already on the scene and have begun serving to folks. All details about the injured is being established,” he mentioned in a put up on X.

Three youngsters had been amongst these hospitalised, in accordance with a Facebook put up by the top of Ukraine’s nationwide rail operator, Ukrzaliznytsia. One of the corporate’s workers, a cashier, was additionally handled on the hospital, Oleksandr Pertsovsky added.

Russia struck two passenger trains in fast succession, first concentrating on an area service after which one sure for Kyiv, mentioned Oleksiy Kuleba, Ukraine’s deputy Prime Minister and Reconstruction Minister.

“Medical groups have already transported the injured to hospitals and are offering mandatory help. Others (who had been on the website) are in shelters overseen by rescuers,” Mr. Kuleba wrote on Telegram on Saturday. He mentioned an air raid alert was ongoing on the station.

Both Mr. Zelenskyy and native Gov. Oleh Hryhorov posted what they mentioned had been images from the scene exhibiting a passenger carriage on fireplace.

Moscow has just lately stepped up airstrikes on Ukraine’s railway community, which is important for army transport, hitting it virtually on daily basis over the previous two months. As in earlier years because the full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the Kremlin has additionally ramped up assaults on Ukraine’s energy grid, in what Kyiv calls an try and weaponise the approaching winter by denying civilians warmth, mild and working water.

Overnight into Saturday, Russian drones and missiles pounded Ukraine’s energy grid once more, a Ukrainian power agency mentioned, a day after what officers described as the largest assault on Ukrainian pure gasoline services since Moscow’s all-out invasion greater than three and a half years in the past.