Footage filmed in Ukraine’s Odesa region on Thursday 13 August 2026 by the national emergency services shows a severely damaged passenger train locomotive, as firefighters extinguish the flames. A nearby carriage has shattered windows, while passengers board evacuation buses with their luggage.
A Russian jet-powered Shahed drone struck the locomotive of the Odesa-Dnipro passenger train in the Berezivka district on Thursday morning, killing the driver and his assistant, Ukrzaliznytsia chairman Oleksandr Pertsovskyi said. A monitoring team had detected the drone and ordered the train to stop near a station, but the drone's sudden manoeuvre left the crew too little time to evacuate after stopping the train. All 340 passengers were evacuated safely and taken to Odesa by 21 buses.
