Published: June 8, 2026 • 8:09 AM IST · Updated: June 8, 2026 • 8:23 AM ISTBy TheBriefWire Editorial Team
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A Ukrainian drone struck a train in Crimea, killing its assistant driver and injuring the driver, the peninsula’s Russian-installed Governor Sergei Aksyonov said in a Telegram post early on Monday (June 8, 2026).
Passengers on the train, commuting between Moscow and Simferopol, the main city of the Russia-annexed Black Sea Crimea peninsula, were not harmed, Mr. Aksyonov added.
Russia seized and annexed Crimea in 2014 — long before its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine — after public protests in Kyiv prompted a Moscow-friendly president to flee Ukraine.
Crimea is a popular destination for Russian tourists.
Drone raid sirens were sounded in the early hours of Monday (June 8, 2026) in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, a major export hub for oil and grains in Russia’s Krasnodar region about a two-hour drive from the bridge Moscow built to connect to Crimea, local authorities said on Telegram.