Main image: Debris lie on the platform near damaged train cars at railway station after Russian drones attack on October 31, 2025 in Sumy, Ukraine. (Photo by Yehor Kryvoruchko/Kordon.Media/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Ukrzaliznytsia has access to military airspace control systems and continuously monitors the situation with strike drones. In the event of a real threat to passengers’ lives, evacuation procedures are carried out, said Serhii 'Flash' Beskrestnov.
“The Ukrzaliznytsia dispatch service has been granted the necessary access to military airspace control systems and continuously monitors the situation with strike drones. If a real threat to passengers’ lives is detected, people are evacuated from the train,” he wrote on Facebook on Wednesday.
Beskrestnov noted that when the situation is not critical, safety is ensured by adjusting train schedules to avoid having to evacuate passengers.
“If a Shahed drone hits a carriage with people, it would be a ‘mass grave,’ so I urge passengers to move at least 100 meters away from the train. We have repeatedly recorded cases when a manually controlled drone from Russia flew to attack an infrastructure target but, seeing a train below, changed its target and attacked the train instead,” he emphasized.
According to the defense ministry advisor, during the joint work of Ukrzaliznytsia specialists and the military, several hundred trains have been removed from danger, “though passengers usually do not see this.”
