The Russian Investigative Committee reported on Sunday that explosions caused the collapses of two bridges in the regions of Bryansk and Kursk, near the Ukraine border.
The collapses left seven dead and 69 injured.
The first case involved a bridge that passes the explosion happened at 10:50 pm, local time, on Saturday, when a train with 388 passengers to Moscow was under the structure, said Russian investigators.
Passengers had to get out of wagons destroyed in the dark. Images released show that part of the locomotive has been crushed and the wagons destroyed.
“The bridge was exploded as the Klimovo-Mosci train passed with 388 passengers on board,” Alexander Bogomaz, governor of the region, told Russian television.
The second explosion was recorded four hours later on a railway bridge over a highway in the neighboring region of Kursk. The road was hit with pieces of a cargo train that passed at the time of detonation, the investigators said.
The Russian Investigative Committee, which investigates serious crimes, listed both cases and explicitly said that the two bridges were exploded.
President Vladimir Putin was informed about the explosions by the Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Emergency Ministry, Kremlin said. Putin also talked to the governor of Bryansk, Alexander Bogomaz.
Frequent attacks during the war
The Russian regions, which have been from the Ukrainian army in war with Russia since 2022.
Both Ukraine and Russia deny having civilians as targets in the fighting.
Ukraine made no immediate comments on the explosions.
Russian politicians aligned to blame Ukraine, stating that it was clearly sabotage to the objective of the United States.
“This is definitely the work of the Ukrainian special services,” the president of the Russian Parliament, Andrei Kartapolov, told the Shot Telegram channel.
“All of this aims to harden the position of the Russian Federation and incite aggression before negotiations. And also intimidate people. But they will be unsuccessful,” he said.
Peace conversations in Türkiye
On Monday (2), diplomats from Russia and Ukraine should meet in Turkey.
The goal is to discuss a possible end of a war that, according to Washington, killed and injured at least 1.2 million people.
US President Donald Trump demanded that the parties make peace and threatened to withdraw if they do not see advances in conversations. In practice, this would mean transferring the responsibility of supporting Ukraine militarily exclusively to European countries.
