Russian forces have conducted massive assaults on railway infrastructure in two Ukrainian regions overnight on 3 September, according to a statement from Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s state railway company. Other strike injured a railway worker and his wife.
“Over the past night, the enemy conducted a targeted, massive shelling of the railway. In particular, infrastructure and rolling stock in Sumy and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts were attacked. Fortunately, there were no casualties,” the Ukrzaliznytsia statement said.
In a separate incident on the evening of 2 September, Russian artillery shelling in Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast, hit the house of a Ukrzaliznytsia employee. The railway worker and his wife were injured in the attack and taken to hospital, the company stated.
Ukrzaliznytsia emphasized that Pokrovsk is currently a key location from which railway workers are organizing the evacuation of civilians. The company noted that its employees are forced to work under constant Russian attacks in the area.
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