Overview
- In the early hours near Oblepikha station in the Irkutsk region, a freight locomotive and coal wagons derailed, halting traffic and delaying seven long‑distance trains by up to nine hours, with onboard crews providing food and assistance.
- Transport investigators opened a criminal case under Part 1, Article 263 of the Russian Criminal Code after preliminarily finding a foreign object left on the track by repair workers; no injuries were reported and damage exceeds 1 million rubles.
- About 300 railway staff and two recovery trains are rebuilding the embankment, track and contact network to restore the East–West corridor operated by the East Siberian Railway.
- In the Penza region at 05:20, a Lada Priora struck a bridge barrier on the M‑5, overturned and caught fire, killing the driver and two passengers.
- In separate road incidents, a passenger died and a driver was hospitalized after a car–truck collision in New Moscow, while three people were injured in a bus–car crash in Yakutia and the injured count rose to four after a bus–truck collision in Tver.