Bridge collapses have derailed trains in two Russian regions, leaving at least seven people dead and multiple others wounded.
On Saturday evening, a bridge fell in front of a moving train in Bryansk Region, killing seven people and injuring 71 others. Several hours later, early on Sunday, a railway bridge collapsed under a moving freight train in Kursk Region, leaving the driver and two of his assistants wounded.
The Russian Investigative Committee said that both incidents were deliberate acts of sabotage.
01 June 2025
12:35 GMTRussia is united in a desire to help the people affected by the bridge collapses in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, has told RT.
Ukraine is gloating over the deaths caused by the collapses, and over the suffering of children, the spokeswoman declared on Sunday. She denounced such actions as a “symptom” of a neo-Nazi “disease” that Russia is combating.
- 11:28 GMT
The train derailments in Bryansk and Kursk Regions are an attempt to “bring terror” to the Russian population, former Pentagon official Michael Maloof told RT.
"Ukraine recognizes that it is not winning the war, in fact, it has flat out lost it already, but they continue to want to resist. So, I would imagine that what we are probably going to see is increasing insurgency efforts,” he cautioned.
- 10:33 GMT
Independent Dutch journalist Sonja van den Ende has told RT that she believes Ukraine to be the likely culprit behind the train derailments in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk Regions.
“It is an act of terrorism and Ukraine is lowering itself to... terrorism like we see with Al Qaeda or, you know, in the Middle East,” she said, adding that targeting civilians “has nothing to do with war.”
Van den Ende also noted that the bridge collapses occurred in the run up to Monday’s meeting between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Istanbul. Before the last round of talks in May, Kiev also tried to raise tensions by sending swarms of drones into Russian territory, she recalled.
- 10:02 GMT
Moscow Railway has said that its workers have discovered damage to train tracks in another part of Bryansk Region.
There were no injuries as the affected part of the railway, between the settlements of Unecha and Zhecha, which is not being used for traffic, according to the company.
- 09:19 GMT
Russian President Vladimir Putin had been receiving reports from the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Emergencies Ministry about the train derailments in Bryansk Region and Kursk Region “throughout the whole night,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.
- 07:21 GMT
Russian Federation Council member Andrey Klishas has blamed Kiev for the derailment, writing on Telegram that the incident confirmed that “Ukraine is being controlled by a terrorist group.”
“Ukraine has long lost the attributes of a state, turning into a terrorist enclave without borders, without legitimate authorities and laws,” he said.
The senator urged the creation of a vast buffer zone inside Ukrainian territory to make sure that “terrorists” are unable to reach Russia in the future.
Collapses of two bridges in Russia were sabotage – investigators
The collapses of two bridges that caused train derailments in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk Regions were due to sabotage, the national Investigative Committee has said.
On Saturday evening, a bridge fell in front of a moving train in Bryansk Region, killing seven people and injuring 71 others. Several hours later, early on Sunday, a railway bridge collapsed under a moving freight train in Kursk Region, leaving the driver and two of his assistants wounded.
The Investigative Committee said in a statement on Sunday that the bridges had been “blown up” in both incidents.
Criminal cases have been launched over the bridge collapses and will be investigated by experts from the agency’s Main Investigations Directorate, it said.
Representatives of the Investigative Committee are currently working at the sites of the two derailments in order to establish all of the circumstances, the agency added.
Earlier in the day, the acting governor of Kursk, Aleksandr Khinshteyn, said that a railway bridge in the region had gone down as a freight train was crossing it.
Some of the train cars fell onto a highway passing under the bridge, while most of the train remained on the tracks, he said.
The locomotive also caught fire, but the blaze was swiftly extinguished, the acting governor added.
According to Khinshteyn, one of the train drivers suffered leg injuries, and he and other crew members were hospitalized.
Speaking about the derailment in Bryansk Region, Russian Senator Andrey Klishas blamed Kiev and branded Ukraine “a terrorist enclave, without borders, legitimate authorities or laws.”
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