09:45, 17 August 2025

After UAV attack, 14 "southern" trains were delayed

A drone attack on a railway station in the Voronezh Region has caused the delay of 14 passenger trains traveling to and from cities in the Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts.

When debris from downed drones fell on a railway station in the Voronezh Region tonight, a track fitter was injured and a power line was damaged, local Governor Alexander Gusev reported on his Telegram channel. In the same area, a store and a clothing market caught fire.

"Currently, due to the incident (the fall of UAV debris) at the Liski station in the Voronezh region, 14 trains of JSC FPC are delayed," the Federal Passenger Company reports.

The delayed trains traveling to southern cities include trains No. 20 Moscow - Rostov, No. 542 Moscow - Adler, No. 562 Moscow - Imeretinsky Kurort, No. 472 Moscow - Adler, No. 215 Barnaul - Adler, No. 511 Vorkuta - Novorossiysk and No. 241 Kirov - Anapa. Trains No. 155 Anapa - Moscow, No. 233 Novorossiysk - Moscow, No. 479 Sukhum - St. Petersburg, No. 113 Krasnodar - Moscow, No. 11 Anapa - Moscow, No. 135 Makhachkala - St. Petersburg, No. 143 Kislovodsk - Moscow were delayed from the Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts.

According to the Federal Passenger Company, the average delay time is up to 2.5 hours.

"Caucasian Knot" wrote that on the night of August 16, air defense intercepted 29 unmanned aerial vehicles of the aircraft type, including 23 of them over the Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts and the Sea of Azov. Around midnight, air defense forces repelled an air attack in Novoshakhtinsk and Rodionovo-Nesvetaisky districts. One local resident was injured. The Millerovsky district of Rostov region was also attacked. In Stavropol, drones attempted to attack the industrial zone of the city of Nevinnomyssk, and stubble caught fire at the site where the drone crashed.

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Translated automatically via Google translate from https://www.kavkaz-uzel.eu/articles/413884