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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Illia Novikov

Ukraine has relied on trains during the war. Russia is creating new technology to target them

Oleh Pryshchepa, 54, second right, a train driver, rides at the train driver's cabin in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Vasilisa Stepanenko) - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A Russian drone strike on the Shostka train station in northeastern Ukraine earlier this month killed a 71-year-old man and injured at least eight, leaving train carriages buckled by fire and riddled with shrapnel.

Ukrainian officials report this as one of many attacks on the nation's critical railway network since mid-summer, disrupting vital commercial and military logistics.

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