{"id":35515,"date":"2026-09-05T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=35515"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T15:33:31","slug":"russia-struck-a-passenger-train-to-kherson-on-the-day-ukraine-announced-a-pause-in-airstrikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=35515","title":{"rendered":"Russia struck a passenger train to Kherson on the day Ukraine announced a pause in airstrikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At midday on September 5, Russian attack drones attacked a passenger train en route to Kherson, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the regional military administration. The train was attacked by several &#8220;shahid&#8221; drones. Two locomotives were damaged. A 55-year-old railway worker was hospitalized with a shrapnel wound to the arm, a concussion, a mine blast, and a closed head injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This incident was largely overlooked by the general public during the visit of American envoys to Moscow. Meanwhile, the strike did not hit a headquarters or a warehouse. The target was a civilian train.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day before, a drone struck a bus and a car in Kherson&#8217;s Central District. One passenger died instantly. On September 5, a 76-year-old woman with a head injury died in a Mykolaiv hospital. The death toll from this strike rose to two, and the wounded to 12, including eight women aged 50-76.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On September 5, Ukraine declared a ceasefire pending US contacts in Moscow and Kyiv. That day, Russia continued to strike civilian transport in the Kherson region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Separately, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine confirmed targeted strikes against military drone control infrastructure: a radar station, an electronic warfare system, and a mesh network repeater in the Bryansk region used to coordinate &#8220;shahids.&#8221;\u2069<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At midday on September 5, Russian attack drones attacked a passenger train en route to Kherson, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the regional military administration. The train was attacked by several &#8220;shahid&#8221; drones. Two locomotives were damaged. A 55-year-old railway worker was hospitalized with a shrapnel wound to the arm, a concussion, a mine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35517,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35515\/revisions\/35517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}