Russian missile attacks struck a passenger train in Ukraine, leaving eight people dead

At least eight people have been killed in Russian attacks across Ukraine, including in a strike on a civilian passenger train, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.

Russia has continued targeting Ukrainian cities and critical energy facilities, even as the United States presses Kyiv to consider a potential peace agreement with Moscow.

In the eastern city of Kramatorsk, a key Ukrainian-held area that Russian forces are steadily approaching, three people lost their lives, according to the head of the city’s military administration.

The governor of the broader Donetsk region one of four Ukrainian territories Moscow claimed to annex in 2022 reported that two people were killed and 13 others injured in the nearby town of Druzhkivka.

In the central Dnipropetrovsk region, emergency responders recovered the body of a 55-year-old man from the debris of a destroyed home. Later the same day, a drone strike on a moving train in the region claimed the life of a 75-year-old man and left nine others wounded, Ukrainian and local authorities said in separate statements.

Deputy Prime Minister Oleksiy Kuleba said the train’s locomotive crew brought it to an immediate halt following the attack, after which passengers were safely evacuated and provided with first aid.

Last month, Ukrainian Railways CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi noted an increase in Russian strikes targeting rail infrastructure, describing it as an effort to isolate certain regions of the country.

In the northern Chernigiv region, which borders Russia, officials confirmed that a woman born in 1937 was also killed.

Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II and resulting in hundreds of thousands of military and civilian casualties.