Overview

• The Ukrainian military intelligence service announced it blew up a freight train in Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia, severing a key supply route to Crimea.
• Bridge explosions in the Kursk and Bryansk regions triggered derailments that killed seven people and injured about 70 others in Bryansk and injured at least one in Kursk.
• The Russian Investigative Committee has classified the bridge collapses as terrorist acts and opened formal probes into the incidents.
• Duma defence committee chair Andrej Kartapolow accused Ukraine of sabotage intended to harden Russia’s position before the resumption of talks.
• The sabotage and derailments occurred overnight just before Russia and Ukraine were due to resume negotiations in Istanbul on Monday.