This picture launched by Performing Governor of the Kursk Area Alexander Khinshtein telegram channel on Sunday, June 1, 2025, reveals a view of a broken bridge after the crash of a freight prepare in Russia’s Kursk area, which borders Ukraine.
AP/Performing Governor of the Kursk Area Alexander Khinshtein
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AP/Performing Governor of the Kursk Area Alexander Khinshtein
Explosions triggered two bridges to break down and derailed two trains in western Russia in a single day, officers mentioned Sunday, with out saying what had triggered the blasts. In one of many incidents, seven individuals have been killed and dozens have been injured.
The primary bridge, within the Bryansk area on the border with Ukraine, collapsed on high of a passenger prepare on Saturday, inflicting the casualties. The prepare’s driver was amongst these killed, state-run Russian Railways mentioned.
Hours later, officers mentioned a second prepare derailed when the bridge beneath it collapsed within the close by Kursk area, which additionally borders Ukraine.
In that collapse, a freight prepare was thrown off its rails onto the highway under because the explosion collapsed the bridge, native appearing Gov. Alexander Khinshtein mentioned Sunday. The crash sparked a fireplace, however there have been no casualties, he mentioned.
Russia’s Investigative Committee, the nation’s high felony investigation company, mentioned in a press release that explosions had triggered the 2 bridges to break down, however didn’t give additional particulars. A number of hours later, it edited the assertion, which was posted on social media, to take away the phrases “explosions” however didn’t present a proof.
The committee mentioned that it could be investigating the incidents as potential acts of terrorism.
Rescue staff cleared particles from each websites, whereas a few of these injured have been transported to Moscow for remedy. Images posted by authorities companies in Bryansk appeared to point out prepare carriages ripped aside and mendacity amid fallen concrete from the collapsed bridge. Different footage on social media was apparently taken from inside autos on the highway that had managed to keep away from driving onto the bridge earlier than it collapsed.
Injury to railway tracks was additionally discovered Sunday by inspectors engaged on the road elsewhere within the Bryansk area, Moscow Railway mentioned in a press release. It didn’t say whether or not the injury was linked to the collapsed bridges.
Up to now, some officers have accused pro-Ukrainian saboteurs of attacking Russia’s railway infrastructure. The small print surrounding such incidents, nonetheless, are restricted and can’t be independently verified.
Ukraine’s navy intelligence, recognized by the Ukrainian abbreviation GUR, mentioned Sunday {that a} Russian navy freight prepare carrying meals and gasoline had been blown up on its strategy to Crimea. It didn’t declare the assault was carried out by GUR or point out the bridge collapses.
The assertion mentioned Moscow’s key artery with the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia area and Crimea has been destroyed.
Russia forces have been pushing into the area of Zaporizhzhia in jap Ukraine since Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Russia took Crimea and annexed it in 2014.
