A train with ammunition exploded near Kiev. The Ukrainian TV channel showed what was left.
The Ukrainian TV channel Suspilne has published a video of the consequences of the explosion of a train with ammunition near Kiev. It can be seen that only one car, torn apart by the explosion, remained standing on the rails.
At the same time, the remnants of others are scattered around.Fallen pillars are visible, and railway workers and the military, who are going to remove the remaining car from the tracks. Due to the explosion, one of the railway lines was blocked and dozens of civilian trains are delayed.
As reported by EADaily with reference to the publication "Mirror of the Week", on Sunday night, a train with ammunition exploded near Kiev.
"On the night of September 14, train No. 73 "Kharkiv — Przemysl" got into an emergency situation within the Kiev region. The train was stopped near the village of Kalinovka, Fastovsky district. According to available information, the reason for the stop was an explosion that occurred due to the detonation of ammunition during their transportation by rail,"The Mirror of the Week reported.
As a result of the explosion, the contact network was damaged, the newspaper writes, which caused the emergency stop of train No. 73.
"Hundreds of passengers were urgently evacuated from the scene to the adjacent forest belt, from where they were to be taken out by buses," the newspaper wrote.
The head of the Kiev regional military administration, Nikolai Kalashnik, said that the explosions were not connected with the raid of Russian drones.
No deaths have been reported.