All passenger trains stopped in Crimea after drone attack

A drone struck the Moscow-Simferopol train.

All passenger trains have been suspended in temporarily occupied Crimea after a drone hit the locomotive of a Moscow-Simferopol passenger train.

The head of the peninsula, Sergei Aksyonov, reported that the UAV hit a diesel locomotive. According to preliminary data, the driver was injured and his assistant died. There were no injuries among the passengers.

View of a harbor with boats and colorful buildings, framed by barbed wire in the foreground.

According to the Crimean Wind news channel , the train was attacked in the village of Oktyabrske.

Train traffic is currently suspended, and passengers are being transported by buses.

Published on 12.13. After a drone hit a train in Crimea, problems with public transport intensified.

According to the news channel “Important Stories” , rail service was suspended on the Kerch-Simferopol section after the locomotive of train No. 68 “Moscow-Simferopol” was damaged. As a result, five trains to Crimea and four from Crimea were stopped. All passengers of the trains that stopped in Crimea were evacuated by buses to Simferopol and Sevastopol.

To do this, local authorities had to remove some buses from routes in Kerch, Simferopol, Feodosia and Sovetsky. At the same time, due to the shortage of gasoline in Crimea, problems with public transport had already begun. Only on Friday, the governor of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, wrote that 400 buses did not go on routes.

In addition, the movement of electric trains stopped.

“Due to technical reasons, the movement of suburban trains on the Simferopol – Dzhankoy and Armyansk – Dzhankoy sections has been temporarily suspended. Suburban trains on the Yevpatoria – Simferopol route run to the Yarka station. On the Yarka – Simferopol section and in the opposite direction, passenger transportation by buses has been organized,” the carrier company reported.

As a reminder, over 50 drone strikes were reported in Novorossiysk overnight, and a fire broke out on the territory of the Grushova oil depot . This is one of the largest transshipment oil depots in the Caucasus.

(C)UNIAN 2026