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Ukraine – Russian Hit On Freight Train, Passengers Hurt
The Telegraph claims that Russian drones hit a civilian passenger train in Ukraine.
Russian drone strikes Ukrainian passenger train
A “savage” Russian drone strike on a passenger train in Ukraine’s Sumy region has injured dozens of people, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.
The Ukrainian president posted a video of a burning carriage, surrounded by shattered glass and splintered iron, that was hit in the strike.
Emergency services are at the scene in the city of Shostka and have begun tending to the wounded, said Mr Zelensky.
“The Russians could not have been unaware that they were striking civilians,” he added. “We’ve heard resolute statements from Europe and America – and it’s high time to turn them all into reality. Lip service is not enough.”
In the video, a man in an orange hi-vis jacket can be seen walking towards the burning train, while another picks something up from the debris.
The train was heading to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and passengers were on board when it was struck at a railway station, Oleh Hryhorov, the governor of Sumy, said.
The status of the casualties was unclear on Saturday morning, with Mr Zelensky saying only that “so far, we know of at least 30 victims”.
Ukrzaliznystia, the Ukrainian state railway company, said there was a second strike on the Shostka train as an evacuation was under way. It said that three children were among the wounded.
The report comes with this picture which is credited to have been posted by the Ukrainian president.
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The picture seems to show a damaged and burning passenger car. But other pictures from the scene show a freight train with its locomotive in flames while a passenger train is standing undamaged on a parallel rail track some twenty meters away.
biggerIt seems that only the freight rain was hit. As the Ukrainian outlet Strana writes (machine translation):
Russia hit a freight-passenger train in Shostka, there are wounded.
There were two strikes on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region. As a result of the incident, there are injured passengers and employees of Ukrzaliznytsia.
This was announced by the Minister of Communities and Territories Alexey Kuleba.
According to him, the first blow fell on the locomotive of the suburban train Tereshchinskaya-Novgorod-Seversky. The second strike was on the electric locomotive of the Kiev–Shostka train.
Judging by the photos published by Sumy publics, the train that was hit in Shostka was a freight-passenger train.
Behind the passenger cars, you can see the freight cars. They can also be seen on the video of the consequences of the strike, which was published by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky.
biggerThe picture show a locomotive with a ‘cope cage’ netting against drone strikes followed by one passenger car followed by several freight cars. A fire can be seen between the locomotive and the passenger car. This is not the suburban passenger train.
The Russia drone hit the freight train which for some reason included one passenger car. The civil passenger train standing on the parallel track may have received collateral damage from the blast wave of the strike but it was quite obviously not the intended target.
This is another example of Ukrainian manipulation of facts designed to drag others into its war.
Last week some Russian channel posted a video of Russian drones following and hitting Ukrainian military freight trains while those were moving at speed. It was claimed that the drones had some device on board which allowed them to recognize and aim at moving trains. A Ukrainian channel claimed that a NVIDIA Jetson Orion Nano board had been found on Russia drone that had recently been shut down:
The NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, priced at $249, is a compact, energy-efficient AI developer board tailored for edge AI applications. It combines robust hardware capabilities with seamless integration into NVIDIA’s AI ecosystem, offering a practical solution for developers and researchers. Whether you’re working on object detection, real-time video analysis, or deploying large language models, the Orin Nano provides the tools to execute AI models in localized, low-power environments. Its affordability and versatility make it a compelling choice for both professionals and hobbyists.
Though none of this has been confirmed it does make sense. The hand sized Jetson Nano board is sufficient to include a pattern recognition model trained to detect moving trains. It is in such devices, not in Large Language Models, where Artificial Intelligence algorithms will find real use cases. Russian developers seem to be on top of this.
Just helping out karlof1 who missed this message from Putin.
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http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/77208
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Search down to Понятно, что сегодняшний кризис отношений
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On June 19, 2025 the Russian President held a meeting with the heads of leading global news agencies.
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At that meeting Vladimir Putin said;
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It’s clear that the current crisis in relations between Russia and Western Europe began in 2014. But the problem isn’t that Russia annexed Crimea, but that Western countries facilitated the coup d’état in Ukraine.
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You see, we’ve always heard before: we must live by the rules. What rules? What kind of rule is this when three countries – France, Germany, and Poland – came to Kyiv and, as guarantors, signed a document of agreement between the opposition and the (democratically elected) authorities led by President Yanukovych. Three countries, their foreign ministers, signed it, right? My colleague from Germany is looking at me. Mr. Steinmeier—he was Foreign Minister at the time—signed it, and a few days later the opposition staged a coup, and no one even batted an eye, as if nothing had happened, you understand. And then we hear: we have to live by the rules. What rules? What are you making up? You write rules for others, but you don’t intend to abide by them yourself? Who would live by such rules?
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That’s where the crisis began. But not because Russia acted from a position of strength. No, those people whom we, until recently, called partners, began to act from a position of strength. And the former Deputy Secretary of State, Ms. Nuland, I believe, said outright: “We spent five billion dollars. Well, we’re not going to leave now.” They spent five billion dollars on a coup. Wow, what revelations!
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Our Western partners have always acted from a position of strength since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It’s clear why; I wrote about it, and that’s all. Because the world order after World War II was based on a balance of power between the victors. And now one of the victors is gone—the Soviet Union has collapsed. And that’s it, the Westerners have begun rewriting all those rules to suit themselves. What rules?
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After Crimea, events began in southeastern Ukraine. What did they do? In the southeast, the people didn’t recognize the coup. Instead of negotiating with them, they started using the army against them. We watched and watched, trying to reach an agreement—eight years, do you understand? That’s not five days. For eight years, we tried to reach an agreement between the Kyiv authorities, whose primary source of power is the coup d’état, and what was then southeastern Ukraine, that is, the Donbas. But in the end, the current (illegitimate) authorities declared: “We are not satisfied with anything in the Minsk agreements, meaning we will not implement them.” We tolerated it for eight years, do you understand?
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But I feel sorry for the people there; they were bullied for eight years. Ultimately, they’re still bullying the Russian Orthodox Church, and they’re bullying the Russian-speaking population. Everyone’s pretending not to notice.
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Ultimately, we decided to end this conflict—yes, using our Armed Forces. What does that mean? Are we planning to attack Eastern Europe, or what?
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A famous Nazi propagandist once said, “The more incredible the lie, the more likely it will be believed.” This myth that Russia is planning to attack Europe, NATO countries—that’s the same incredible lie they’re trying to force the people of Western European countries to believe. We understand that it’s nonsense, you know? Those who say it don’t believe it themselves. Well, and you yourselves, I suppose. Does any of you believe that Russia is preparing to attack NATO? What is that?
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Did you know that NATO countries currently spend $1.4 trillion on military spending? That’s more than all the countries in the world combined, including Russia and the People’s Republic of China. And the population there, in NATO countries—how many is there?—is over 300 billion, 340 billion. Russia, as we know, has 145, almost 150 billion now. And we’re spending an incomparable amount of money, simply an incomparable amount of money, on military spending. And we’re planning to attack NATO, right? What kind of nonsense is this?
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And everyone knows it’s nonsense. And they’re deceiving their own populations in order to squeeze money out of budgets—five percent, three and a half percent, plus one and a half percent—and to use this to explain the economic and social failures. Well, of course, Germany—the leading economy in the European Union—is teetering on the brink of recession. Incidentally, I still can’t understand why the Federal Republic has refused to use Russian energy resources. We supplied other European countries through Ukraine, Ukraine received 400 million in transit money from us annually, and yet Germany, for some reason, refused to receive Russian gas. Why? No, there’s simply no rational explanation. What for?
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Volkswagen is dying, Porsche is dying, the glass industry is dying, the fertilizer industry is dying. For what? I’ll buy a ticket to spite the conductor and not go. Is that it? What nonsense.
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So if NATO countries want to increase their budgets even more, that’s their business. But it won’t benefit anyone. They will, of course, create additional risks, yes, they will. Well, that’s not our decision; it’s the decision of the NATO countries. I believe this is completely irrational and senseless, and there are certainly no threats from Russia; it’s just nonsense. Dr. Goebbels said, and I repeat: the more incredible the lie, the more likely it will be believed. And some people in Europe probably believe that.
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They’d be better off saving their auto industry and raising wages.
Posted by: UNIQUE | Oct 4 2025 20:52 utc | 50
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