Russian Jet-Powered Drone Strikes Odesa–Dnipro Passenger Train, Killing Driver and Assistant

A Russian jet-powered Shahed-type drone struck the locomotive of the Odesa–Dnipro passenger train near Berezivka in Odesa oblast on the morning of August 13. A monitoring team had detected the drone and ordered the train to stop, but the drone's sudden maneuver left the crew too little time to evacuate after stopping. The 50-year-old driver and his 41-year-old assistant were killed. All 340 passengers, including 67 children, were evacuated safely and bused to Odesa. President Zelensky said the strike targeted "a clearly civilian object" and that the drone operator could not have been unaware of that.