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MOSCOW/RIGA: A Ukrainian drone attack on a town in Russia’s Bryansk border region killed three rail workers on Thursday, hitting a locomotive at a station, Russia’s state RZhD rail network said.
Russian border towns and villages regularly fall under Ukrainian fire, as Moscow’s offensive against Ukraine has dragged on into a fifth year.
“(On Thursday) a shunting locomotive came under drone attack at the Unecha station in the Bryansk region,” the network said in a statement on social media. It said the dead were a driver, an assistant driver, and his repairman son.
The youngest was born in 2007, according to the statement. Unecha lies near the Ukrainian and Belarusian borders. Kyiv has accused Russia of targeting its rail network.
Latvia, Lithuania issue drone alerts, scramble Nato fighter jets
Drone alerts
Lithuania and Latvia each detected drones in their airspace on Thursday and urged some inhabitants to seek shelter while Nato fighter jets scrambled to intercept the devices, the latest in a series of such security incidents in the Baltics. In Lithuania, military jets were searching for two drones, the country’s military said, while air raid sirens were blaring in a county bordering Russian ally Belarus to alert civilians to the danger.
Earlier, in a separate incident, the Latvian armed forces reported a drone had entered the country’s airspace. They later said the threat had ended, without providing further detail. Ukraine has in recent months stepped up its long-range drone attacks on Russia, including in the Baltic Sea area, where several Ukrainian military drones have strayed into the airspace of Nato members Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Published in Dawn, May 22nd, 2026
