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Russian strikes kill eight in Ukraine, including train passengers
This handout picture taken and released by Ukrainian State Emergency Service on July 16, 2025 shows firefighters extinguishing a fire on civilian object after Russian strike in Vinnytsya region, amid Russian invasion in Ukraine. Russia fired hundreds of drones, artillery and a ballistic missile at Ukraine between late July 15 and early July 16, Ukraine said, defying calls by Donald Trump to reach a peace deal. (Photo by Handout / Ukrainian State Emergency Service / AFP)
Russian attacks have killed at least eight people in Ukraine, including victims of a strike on a civilian passenger train, Ukrainian authorities reported on Monday.
Moscow has intensified strikes on Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure even as the United States continues to push Kyiv toward a negotiated peace deal with the Kremlin.
In the eastern city of Kramatorsk, a key Ukrainian stronghold under Russian advance, three people were killed, according to the head of the city’s military administration.
In the nearby town of Druzhkivka, located in the wider Donetsk region, which Russia claimed to annex in 2022 along with three other Ukrainian regions, two people were killed and 13 others wounded, officials said.
In central Dnipropetrovsk region, the body of a 55-year-old man was discovered in the rubble of a house. Later on Monday, a drone attack targeted a moving train in the same region, killing a 75-year-old man and injuring nine others, according to separate announcements from Kyiv and local authorities.
“The locomotive crew immediately stopped the train. The passengers were evacuated and given first aid,” Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said.
Ukrainian Railways CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi told AFP last month that increasing Russian strikes on train infrastructure appear to be an “attempt to effectively cut certain regions off from Ukraine.”
Elsewhere, a woman born in 1937 was killed in the northern Chernihiv region near the Russian border.
The conflict, triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, has become Europe’s deadliest since World War II, resulting in hundreds of thousands of military and civilian deaths on both sides.
AFP
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