Vladimir Putin has launched a new attack on Ukraine after shelling five train stations in the space of an hour.
According to the head of Ukrainian Railways, Alexander Kamyshin, the targets in central and western Ukraine were attacked on Monday morning which had caused 16 passenger trains to be delayed.
Mr Kamyshin also added the attacks were all coming within an hour of each other, with footage posted to social media showing black smoke rising from the site.
He believes Ukrainian railways are being targeted.
“ Russians keep destroying Ukrainian railway infrastructure,” he said.
According to Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv region, a missile hit an electrical substation at around 8.30am local time, he posted on the Telegram messaging app.
He said: “There is no information about casualties yet."
A station in Krasne, east of Lviv, is said to be among those hit as further details are to be released.
However, the regional Governor of Vinnytsia, in west-central Ukraine, believes an unspecified people had been killed and wounded after strikes at stations in the towns of Zhmerynka and Kozyatyn.
Serhiy Borzov said in a video released on Telegram “the enemy is attempting to hit critical infrastructure”.
Meanwhile, it is not known yet which towns were targeted with Russia not immediately commenting on the claims.
Previously, train stations have been targets during the conflict with a Russian missile strike at a station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk earlier this month killing at least 50 people, including children.
The attack happened as women, children and older people were trying to flee the conflict - as a defence expert said the intention may have been to block the movement of military infrastructure.
Editor of military news site the UK Defence Journal , George Allison, said in the i : “If the Russians can’t currently muster enough force to capture the city, then it’s in their best interests to prevent the movement of heavy equipment into the city and to prevent a build-up of forces by Ukraine while Russia builds up their own forces in the area.”
This comes as Putin on Monday said his main spy agency had foiled what he cast as a Western plot to kill a prominent Russian journalist.
"This morning, the Federal Security Service stopped the activities of a terrorist group that planned to attack and kill one famous Russian TV journalist," Putin told prosecutors.
"They have moved to terror - to preparing the murder of our journalists," Putin said.
He did not provide evidence to support his claims.
