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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - KYIV — Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned as "terrorism" a Russian drone attack on a crowded passenger train that local officials say killed at least five people and injured several others.
Prosecutors said fragments of five bodies had been found at the scene of the strike on the train, which occurred on Tuesday near a village in Ukraine’s north-eastern Kharkiv region.
The train had been operating from Chop, near Ukraine’s western borders with Hungary and Slovakia, to the town of Barvinkove. Photographs posted online showed at least two carriages ablaze next to a snow-covered rail bed.
More than 200 people were on the train, officials said, when one of the carriages was hit by a drone and two other drones exploded nearby.
Zelensky said 18 people were in the carriage at the time and there was no "military justification" in targeting civilians.
“In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be considered in exactly the same way – purely as terrorism. There is not and cannot be any military purpose in this,” Zelensky wrote on Telegram.
He said the latest bombardment undermined peace efforts and urged allies to step up pressure on Moscow to end the war.
“Every such Russian strike erodes the diplomacy that is still ongoing and undermines the efforts of partners who are helping to end this war,” he wrote on THE messaging app.
Russia has not commented on the strike, but it has intensified drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's energy and transport infrastructure during the harshest winter in years.
Elsewhere in Ukraine, the southern port city of Odesa was hit by dozens of drones and officials said three people were killed and dozens more wounded.
Energy officials said a local facility had suffered "enormous damage" overnight into Tuesday and Odesa city chief Serhii Lysak said attacks had continued for a second night into Wednesday.
Meanwhile, in the Kyiv region, a couple were killed and their four-year-old child was hurt when a residential block of flats was hit in a district close to the capital, police said.
Millions of people across Ukraine have been left without heating, electricity and water after the Russian assaults.
Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.
Russia's daily aerial assaults continue even though Ukraine-Russia talks last week held the latest round of talks aimed at ending the war.
The talks that also involved US negotiators took place in the United Arab Emirates, and were hailed by all sides as constructive.
However, key territorial issues remain unresolved, and further meetings are expected this weekend. — Agencies
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