Bridge collapse, train derailment in Russia kills seven

01-06-2025

At least seven people were killed and 69 injured when a highway bridge collapsed onto railway tracks after an "illegal interference," derailing a train in Russia's Bryansk region that borders Ukraine.
The train's locomotive and several cars derailed late on Saturday "due to the collapse of a span structure of the road bridge as a result of an illegal interference in the operation of transport", Russian Railways said on the Telegram messaging app.
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk region, said on Telegram that 44 people were hospitalised. Three children were among those injured with one in serious condition, he added.
Russia's ministry of emergency situations said on Telegram that efforts to find and rescue victims continued throughout the night, and that some 180 personnel were involved in the operation.
Among those killed was the locomotive driver, Russia's state news agencies reported, citing medics.
Social media pictures and videos showed passengers trying to help others climb out of the train's damaged carriages in the dark and firefighters looking for ways to reach passengers.
Russia's Baza Telegram channel, which often publishes information from sources in the security services and law enforcement, reported, without providing evidence, that according to preliminary information, the bridge was blown up.
Reuters could not independently verify the Baza report and there was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Since the start of the war that Russia launched more than three years ago, there have been continued cross-border shelling, drone strikes, and covert raids from Ukraine into the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions that border Ukraine.
The train was going from the town of Klimovo to Moscow, Russian Railways said. It collided with the collapsed bridge in the area of a federal highway in the Vygonichskyi district of the Bryansk region, Bogomaz said. The district lies some 100km from the border with Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump has urged Moscow and Kyiv to work together on a deal to end the war, and Russia has proposed a second round of face-to-face talks with Ukrainian officials next week in Istanbul.
Ukraine is yet to commit to attending the talks on Monday, saying it first needed to see Russian proposals, while a leading US senator warned Moscow it would be "hit hard" by new US sanctions.
with Reuters
At least seven people were killed and 69 injured when a highway bridge collapsed onto railway tracks after an "illegal interference," derailing a train in Russia's Bryansk region that borders Ukraine.
The train's locomotive and several cars derailed late on Saturday "due to the collapse of a span structure of the road bridge as a result of an illegal interference in the operation of transport", Russian Railways said on the Telegram messaging app.
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk region, said on Telegram that 44 people were hospitalised. Three children were among those injured with one in serious condition, he added.
Russia's ministry of emergency situations said on Telegram that efforts to find and rescue victims continued throughout the night, and that some 180 personnel were involved in the operation.
Among those killed was the locomotive driver, Russia's state news agencies reported, citing medics.
Social media pictures and videos showed passengers trying to help others climb out of the train's damaged carriages in the dark and firefighters looking for ways to reach passengers.
Russia's Baza Telegram channel, which often publishes information from sources in the security services and law enforcement, reported, without providing evidence, that according to preliminary information, the bridge was blown up.
Reuters could not independently verify the Baza report and there was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Since the start of the war that Russia launched more than three years ago, there have been continued cross-border shelling, drone strikes, and covert raids from Ukraine into the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions that border Ukraine.
The train was going from the town of Klimovo to Moscow, Russian Railways said. It collided with the collapsed bridge in the area of a federal highway in the Vygonichskyi district of the Bryansk region, Bogomaz said. The district lies some 100km from the border with Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump has urged Moscow and Kyiv to work together on a deal to end the war, and Russia has proposed a second round of face-to-face talks with Ukrainian officials next week in Istanbul.
Ukraine is yet to commit to attending the talks on Monday, saying it first needed to see Russian proposals, while a leading US senator warned Moscow it would be "hit hard" by new US sanctions.
with Reuters
At least seven people were killed and 69 injured when a highway bridge collapsed onto railway tracks after an "illegal interference," derailing a train in Russia's Bryansk region that borders Ukraine.
The train's locomotive and several cars derailed late on Saturday "due to the collapse of a span structure of the road bridge as a result of an illegal interference in the operation of transport", Russian Railways said on the Telegram messaging app.
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk region, said on Telegram that 44 people were hospitalised. Three children were among those injured with one in serious condition, he added.
Russia's ministry of emergency situations said on Telegram that efforts to find and rescue victims continued throughout the night, and that some 180 personnel were involved in the operation.
Among those killed was the locomotive driver, Russia's state news agencies reported, citing medics.
Social media pictures and videos showed passengers trying to help others climb out of the train's damaged carriages in the dark and firefighters looking for ways to reach passengers.
Russia's Baza Telegram channel, which often publishes information from sources in the security services and law enforcement, reported, without providing evidence, that according to preliminary information, the bridge was blown up.
Reuters could not independently verify the Baza report and there was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Since the start of the war that Russia launched more than three years ago, there have been continued cross-border shelling, drone strikes, and covert raids from Ukraine into the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions that border Ukraine.
The train was going from the town of Klimovo to Moscow, Russian Railways said. It collided with the collapsed bridge in the area of a federal highway in the Vygonichskyi district of the Bryansk region, Bogomaz said. The district lies some 100km from the border with Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump has urged Moscow and Kyiv to work together on a deal to end the war, and Russia has proposed a second round of face-to-face talks with Ukrainian officials next week in Istanbul.
Ukraine is yet to commit to attending the talks on Monday, saying it first needed to see Russian proposals, while a leading US senator warned Moscow it would be "hit hard" by new US sanctions.
with Reuters
At least seven people were killed and 69 injured when a highway bridge collapsed onto railway tracks after an "illegal interference," derailing a train in Russia's Bryansk region that borders Ukraine.
The train's locomotive and several cars derailed late on Saturday "due to the collapse of a span structure of the road bridge as a result of an illegal interference in the operation of transport", Russian Railways said on the Telegram messaging app.
Alexander Bogomaz, the governor of the Bryansk region, said on Telegram that 44 people were hospitalised. Three children were among those injured with one in serious condition, he added.
Russia's ministry of emergency situations said on Telegram that efforts to find and rescue victims continued throughout the night, and that some 180 personnel were involved in the operation.
Among those killed was the locomotive driver, Russia's state news agencies reported, citing medics.
Social media pictures and videos showed passengers trying to help others climb out of the train's damaged carriages in the dark and firefighters looking for ways to reach passengers.
Russia's Baza Telegram channel, which often publishes information from sources in the security services and law enforcement, reported, without providing evidence, that according to preliminary information, the bridge was blown up.
Reuters could not independently verify the Baza report and there was no immediate comment from Ukraine.
Since the start of the war that Russia launched more than three years ago, there have been continued cross-border shelling, drone strikes, and covert raids from Ukraine into the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions that border Ukraine.
The train was going from the town of Klimovo to Moscow, Russian Railways said. It collided with the collapsed bridge in the area of a federal highway in the Vygonichskyi district of the Bryansk region, Bogomaz said. The district lies some 100km from the border with Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump has urged Moscow and Kyiv to work together on a deal to end the war, and Russia has proposed a second round of face-to-face talks with Ukrainian officials next week in Istanbul.
Ukraine is yet to commit to attending the talks on Monday, saying it first needed to see Russian proposals, while a leading US senator warned Moscow it would be "hit hard" by new US sanctions.
with Reuters

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Ukrainian drone attacks have killed three people, Russian officials say, as Kyiv targeted oil refineries and a key military airfield for drones inside of Russia. Russia's Defence Ministry said air defences intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, killed one person, acting governor Yuri Slyusar said. Further from the front line, a woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone strike in the Penza region, according to regional governor Oleg Melnichenko. In the Samara region, falling drone debris sparked a fire that killed an elderly resident, regional Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said. In these and other regions, governors reported damage to industrial facilities. Russian officials did not name specific facilities hit, but Ukrainian authorities later said they had targeted key sites in Russia's energy and defence sectors late on Friday in retaliation for deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities earlier this week. Ukraine's General Staff said it struck the Ryazan and Novokuibyshevsk oil refineries, a fuel storage facility in Voronezh, and a defence-linked electronics manufacturer in Penza. Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency said its drones had hit Russia's Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been used to launch waves of long-range drones at targets in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched 53 drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight into Saturday. It said that air defences shot down or jammed 45 drones. Eleven people were wounded in a drone strike on the Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said Saturday. The reciprocal drone strikes followed a day of mourning in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Friday, after a Russian drone and missile attack killed 31 people, including five children, and wounded over 150. The continued attacks come after US President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a shorter deadline — August 8 — for peace efforts to make progress. Trump said on Thursday that special envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Russia to push Moscow to agree to a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine and has threatened new economic sanctions if progress is not made. Also in Ukraine, protesters gathered in the west-central city of Vinnytsia late on Friday to demand the release of men detained by military enlistment offices. They broke into a stadium where the detainees were being held. According to the regional military recruitment centre, a group of conscripts had been brought there for medical examinations and other procedures related to mobilisation. "In the evening, a group of civilians gathered near the centre and behaved aggressively. Attempts to illegally enter the temporary assembly point, damage property and disturb public order were recorded," a statement from the centre said. The incident came amid rising public frustration over Ukraine's mobilisation drive, as the war with Russia grinds on in its fourth year. Russian forces now control almost 20 per cent of Ukraine in its east and south after three-and-a-half years of grinding war. with Reuters Ukrainian drone attacks have killed three people, Russian officials say, as Kyiv targeted oil refineries and a key military airfield for drones inside of Russia. Russia's Defence Ministry said air defences intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, killed one person, acting governor Yuri Slyusar said. Further from the front line, a woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone strike in the Penza region, according to regional governor Oleg Melnichenko. In the Samara region, falling drone debris sparked a fire that killed an elderly resident, regional Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said. In these and other regions, governors reported damage to industrial facilities. Russian officials did not name specific facilities hit, but Ukrainian authorities later said they had targeted key sites in Russia's energy and defence sectors late on Friday in retaliation for deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities earlier this week. Ukraine's General Staff said it struck the Ryazan and Novokuibyshevsk oil refineries, a fuel storage facility in Voronezh, and a defence-linked electronics manufacturer in Penza. Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency said its drones had hit Russia's Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been used to launch waves of long-range drones at targets in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched 53 drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight into Saturday. It said that air defences shot down or jammed 45 drones. Eleven people were wounded in a drone strike on the Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said Saturday. The reciprocal drone strikes followed a day of mourning in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Friday, after a Russian drone and missile attack killed 31 people, including five children, and wounded over 150. The continued attacks come after US President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a shorter deadline — August 8 — for peace efforts to make progress. Trump said on Thursday that special envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Russia to push Moscow to agree to a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine and has threatened new economic sanctions if progress is not made. Also in Ukraine, protesters gathered in the west-central city of Vinnytsia late on Friday to demand the release of men detained by military enlistment offices. They broke into a stadium where the detainees were being held. According to the regional military recruitment centre, a group of conscripts had been brought there for medical examinations and other procedures related to mobilisation. "In the evening, a group of civilians gathered near the centre and behaved aggressively. Attempts to illegally enter the temporary assembly point, damage property and disturb public order were recorded," a statement from the centre said. The incident came amid rising public frustration over Ukraine's mobilisation drive, as the war with Russia grinds on in its fourth year. Russian forces now control almost 20 per cent of Ukraine in its east and south after three-and-a-half years of grinding war. with Reuters Ukrainian drone attacks have killed three people, Russian officials say, as Kyiv targeted oil refineries and a key military airfield for drones inside of Russia. Russia's Defence Ministry said air defences intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, killed one person, acting governor Yuri Slyusar said. Further from the front line, a woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone strike in the Penza region, according to regional governor Oleg Melnichenko. In the Samara region, falling drone debris sparked a fire that killed an elderly resident, regional Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said. In these and other regions, governors reported damage to industrial facilities. Russian officials did not name specific facilities hit, but Ukrainian authorities later said they had targeted key sites in Russia's energy and defence sectors late on Friday in retaliation for deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities earlier this week. Ukraine's General Staff said it struck the Ryazan and Novokuibyshevsk oil refineries, a fuel storage facility in Voronezh, and a defence-linked electronics manufacturer in Penza. Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency said its drones had hit Russia's Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been used to launch waves of long-range drones at targets in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched 53 drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight into Saturday. It said that air defences shot down or jammed 45 drones. Eleven people were wounded in a drone strike on the Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said Saturday. The reciprocal drone strikes followed a day of mourning in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Friday, after a Russian drone and missile attack killed 31 people, including five children, and wounded over 150. The continued attacks come after US President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a shorter deadline — August 8 — for peace efforts to make progress. Trump said on Thursday that special envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Russia to push Moscow to agree to a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine and has threatened new economic sanctions if progress is not made. Also in Ukraine, protesters gathered in the west-central city of Vinnytsia late on Friday to demand the release of men detained by military enlistment offices. They broke into a stadium where the detainees were being held. According to the regional military recruitment centre, a group of conscripts had been brought there for medical examinations and other procedures related to mobilisation. "In the evening, a group of civilians gathered near the centre and behaved aggressively. Attempts to illegally enter the temporary assembly point, damage property and disturb public order were recorded," a statement from the centre said. The incident came amid rising public frustration over Ukraine's mobilisation drive, as the war with Russia grinds on in its fourth year. Russian forces now control almost 20 per cent of Ukraine in its east and south after three-and-a-half years of grinding war. with Reuters Ukrainian drone attacks have killed three people, Russian officials say, as Kyiv targeted oil refineries and a key military airfield for drones inside of Russia. Russia's Defence Ministry said air defences intercepted or destroyed 112 drones across eight Russian regions and the Russian-occupied Crimean Peninsula. A drone attack on the Rostov region, on the border with Ukraine, killed one person, acting governor Yuri Slyusar said. Further from the front line, a woman was killed and two other people wounded in a drone strike in the Penza region, according to regional governor Oleg Melnichenko. In the Samara region, falling drone debris sparked a fire that killed an elderly resident, regional Governor Vyacheslav Fedorishchev said. In these and other regions, governors reported damage to industrial facilities. Russian officials did not name specific facilities hit, but Ukrainian authorities later said they had targeted key sites in Russia's energy and defence sectors late on Friday in retaliation for deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities earlier this week. Ukraine's General Staff said it struck the Ryazan and Novokuibyshevsk oil refineries, a fuel storage facility in Voronezh, and a defence-linked electronics manufacturer in Penza. Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency said its drones had hit Russia's Primorsko-Akhtarsk military airfield, which has been used to launch waves of long-range drones at targets in Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia launched 53 drones and decoys at Ukraine overnight into Saturday. It said that air defences shot down or jammed 45 drones. Eleven people were wounded in a drone strike on the Kharkiv region, Governor Oleh Syniehubov said Saturday. The reciprocal drone strikes followed a day of mourning in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Friday, after a Russian drone and missile attack killed 31 people, including five children, and wounded over 150. The continued attacks come after US President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave Russian President Vladimir Putin a shorter deadline — August 8 — for peace efforts to make progress. Trump said on Thursday that special envoy Steve Witkoff is heading to Russia to push Moscow to agree to a ceasefire in its war with Ukraine and has threatened new economic sanctions if progress is not made. Also in Ukraine, protesters gathered in the west-central city of Vinnytsia late on Friday to demand the release of men detained by military enlistment offices. They broke into a stadium where the detainees were being held. According to the regional military recruitment centre, a group of conscripts had been brought there for medical examinations and other procedures related to mobilisation. "In the evening, a group of civilians gathered near the centre and behaved aggressively. Attempts to illegally enter the temporary assembly point, damage property and disturb public order were recorded," a statement from the centre said. The incident came amid rising public frustration over Ukraine's mobilisation drive, as the war with Russia grinds on in its fourth year. Russian forces now control almost 20 per cent of Ukraine in its east and south after three-and-a-half years of grinding war. with Reuters