A freight train carrying fuel was blown up overnight near the village of Akimivka in the Melitopol district of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine’s Military Intelligence (HUR) reported Sunday, June 1.
The area is under Russian occupation. According to HUR, the targeted train was military and en route to Russian-occupied Crimea.
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“As a result of an explosion on the railway track, a train with fuel tanks and freight cars went off the rails,” HUR said in a statement. “A key logistical artery for Russian forces in occupied Zaporizhzhia and Crimea has been disrupted.”
Russian authorities have not commented on the accident.
In a separate development early June 1, two bridges collapsed in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions, both of which border Ukraine.
In the Bryansk region, a road bridge collapsed as a passenger train traveling from Klimovo to Moscow passed beneath it. Seven people were killed, according to local officials. The regional governor said the bridge “was blown up.”
In Kursk, a railway bridge in the Zheleznogorsk district collapsed as a freight train was crossing. Several cars fell onto the road below, and one train driver was injured.
It remains unclear whether the bridge collapses are connected to the reported explosion in Ukraine. Russian authorities have not provided further details.
Russia has reported several acts of sabotage on its rail network since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Moscow has previously blamed Ukraine for similar incidents, though no direct link has been made in this case. Kyiv has not commented.
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The accidents occurred just days before a possible meeting between Russian and Ukrainian officials in Istanbul, part of a renewed push for peace talks led by the United States.
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