00:03A passenger train carrying hundreds of civilians becomes the latest scene of devastation in Ukraine.
00:11Ukrainian President Zelenskyy has released dramatic footage showing the aftermath of a Russian drone strike on a passenger train in
00:19the Odessa region.
00:20The locomotive is badly damaged. Firefighters battle the flames. Windows on a nearby carriage are shattered. And amid the wreckage,
00:30two railway workers are dead.
00:32But the biggest question now is how close this attack came to becoming an even greater tragedy.
00:38The Russian attack targeted the locomotive of an Odessa-Denipro passenger train in the Berezka district of Odessa region.
00:47According to Ukrainian officials, a monitoring team detected an incoming Shahhead-type drone and ordered the train to stop near
00:55a station.
00:56But the situation changed rapidly. A sudden maneuver left the train crew with too little time to fully evacuate before
01:03the drone struck.
01:05The impact hit the locomotive. The driver and his assistant were killed.
01:09The front section of the train was left heavily damaged and scorched.
01:13But behind that destroyed locomotive were hundreds of passengers.
01:18A total of 340 people were traveling on the train. And among them were 67 children.
01:25Despite the strike, Ukrainian authorities say every passenger was safely evacuated.
01:31Buses were brought in to transport the passengers onward to Odessa.
01:35No other passenger casualties were reported.
01:38That evacuation may have prevented what could have been a mass-casualty disaster.
01:44Images released after the attack show passengers leaving the train carrying their luggage as emergency crews work around the burning
01:52locomotive.
01:53Zelensky shared the footage on social media, along with a direct accusation against Russia.
01:59He said the locomotive of an ordinary passenger train had been destroyed by a jet-powered drone.
02:05The Ukrainian president stressed that there were 340 people on board.
02:11His message was clear. The target was civilian.
02:15Zelensky argued that whoever operated the drone could not have been unaware that the train was carrying ordinary passengers.
02:22He offered condolences to the families of the two railway workers killed in the attack.
02:27But he also used the strike to make a broader appeal to Ukraine's allies.
02:32According to Zelensky, Russia launched more than 130 attack drones overnight across 11 Ukrainian regions.
02:40The train strike, he said, was part of a wider campaign targeting ordinary life and critical infrastructure.
02:47The damage was not limited to the railway.
02:50Across Ukraine, Russian drone attacks continue to threaten transport networks, energy infrastructure, and civilian areas.
02:58The images from the Odessa region show the human cost of the continuing drone war.
03:04The locomotive is charred and almost unrecognizable.
03:08Firefighters work to extinguish the flames.
03:11A nearby carriage has broken windows.
03:13And passengers are forced to leave a journey that was supposed to take them safely across the country.
03:19The fact that all 340 passengers survived does not erase the loss of the two railway workers.
03:27Their deaths have turned a routine passenger journey into another deadly episode in the war.
03:33For the passengers on this train, the outcome could have been far worse.
03:38340 people, including 67 children, escaped.
03:42But two railway workers did not.
03:45And now, the charred remains of the locomotive stand as a stark reminder of how quickly an ordinary journey can
03:52become a deadly battlefield.
03:55Zelensky says Russia must face greater international pressure, and that Ukraine urgently needs stronger air defenses.
04:02The latest strike also underscores a broader reality.
04:07As Russia continues launching drones across multiple Ukrainian regions, civilian transport and infrastructure remain exposed.
04:16The passengers made it out.
04:18The train did not.
04:20And for Ukraine, the battle to protect ordinary life from the drone war continues.
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