A Ukrainian drone strike on a passenger train killed the assistant driver and wounded the driver, a Moscow-backed official said Monday.
Moscow and Kyiv have intensified drone strikes on each other in recent months as US-led diplomatic efforts to end the war, now in its fifth year, remain stalled.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky received the backing of the leaders of the UK, France and Germany in calling for direct ceasefire talks between the warring parties, following a meeting in London on Sunday.
Sergey Aksyonov, the Moscow-installed head of the Crimea region, wrote on Telegram that an “enemy drone strike” had killed the assistant driver and wounded the driver of a passenger train on the route between Moscow and Simferopol in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula which Russia annexed in 2014.
Aksyonov and rail operator Grand Service Express said that no passengers were harmed in the attack.
Grand Service Express said it had suspended passenger train services in Crimea.
The attack came hours after Russia fired waves of drones and other munitions at Ukraine, with one of the attacks damaging a nuclear storage facility near the Chernobyl disaster site, Ukrainian officials said.
