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.
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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.
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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.