Freight train driver killed in drone attack in Bryansk Oblast

A train driver was killed when a kamikaze drone attacked a freight train in Novozybkov, Bryansk Oblast, according to regional governor Yegor Kovalchuk on Sunday, October 26. The locomotive's hull was damaged in the strike. The 44-year-old driver was rushed to a hospital but died from his wounds. The assistant driver sustained minor injuries and refused hospitalization. The attack occurred on the Novozybkov-Zlynka stretch of the Bryansk-Gomel route, as confirmed by Russian Railways. The deceased leaves behind a wife and son. On October 24, Kovalchuk reported that a series of Ukrainian drone attacks killed three people and injured six others, including an attack on a minibus in the village of Borshchovo.