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On Thursday 13 August in the Odesa region a rocket "Shahed" attacked a passenger train, resulting in the death of the locomotive engineer and the assistant.
This was reported by Oleksandr Pershotsky, the chairman of the board of JSC"Ukrzaliznytsia", and the Ukrainian Railways press service.
"A targeted strike of a rocket "Shahed" on the locomotive of a passenger train in the Odesa region. Unfortunately, I must report in the first person the most terrible: preliminarily, according to available information, this strike left our locomotive crew—the engineer and the assistant—no chance," Pershotsky wrote.
According to him, prior to that there was a recorded threat from the drone; the monitoring team issued a command to stop—the train was approaching the station for the safe evacuation of passengers.
"The sharp maneuver of the rocket "Shahed" is a matter of minutes, and the locomotive crew did not have time to fully stop and evacuate themselves," he noted.
340 Passengers and the train crew, among whom there were no injuries, were evacuated to a safe location. Currently, transportation of passengers to Odesa by buses has been organized.
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