{"id":1355683,"date":"2026-02-09T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/sumy-and-chernihiv-regions-under-attack-russia-is-targeting-railway-infrastructure-in-the-north\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T17:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:03:24","slug":"sumy-and-chernihiv-regions-under-attack-russia-is-targeting-railway-infrastructure-in-the-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/sumy-and-chernihiv-regions-under-attack-russia-is-targeting-railway-infrastructure-in-the-north\/","title":{"rendered":"Sumy and Chernihiv regions under attack: Russia is targeting railway infrastructure in the North"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Russian military is targeting civilian railway infrastructure, focusing its attacks on the northern regions &#8211; Chernihiv and Sumy regions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/OleksiiKuleba\/8145\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was announced by<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksiy Kuleba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He emphasized that Russia carried out a series of strikes on the railway in Northern Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, an enemy drone hit a locomotive in Konotop that was supposed to be attached to a passenger train.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not far from Tereshchenska station in Sumy region, the enemy damaged the track, as a result of which train traffic was temporarily restricted during the restoration work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Chernihiv region, at the Snovsk station, Russians attacked a diesel train. The fire was quickly extinguished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among other things, a hostile drone hit a company car that railway workers were using to repair a section of track. One employee was injured in the attack, while others were evacuated. The injured person was taken to the hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Repair work is ongoing everywhere, train traffic is ensured,&#8221; Kuleba noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> Earlier, &#8220;UZ&#8221; reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/cherez-obstril-zaliznychnoi-infrastruktury-deiaki-poizdy-mozhut-zatrymuvatysia-perelik\/\">the Russian army once again struck Ukrainian railway infrastructure<\/a> , damaging a locomotive and a contact network.<\/p>\n<p> We will remind you that recently <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bezpilotnyky-rf-obstrilialy-zaliznychnu-stantsiiu-ta-vahon-nezlamnosti-na-sumshchyni\/\">the Russian occupation army massively attacked the railway infrastructure of the Sumy region with drones<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian military is targeting civilian railway infrastructure, focusing its attacks on the northern regions &#8211; Chernihiv and Sumy regions. This was announced by the Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksiy Kuleba. He emphasized that Russia carried out a series of strikes on the railway in Northern Ukraine. In particular, an enemy drone hit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1355677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875],"class_list":["post-1355683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}