Overview

• A road bridge collapse in Bryansk’s Vygonichskyi district on May 31 sent concrete debris onto a Moscow-bound passenger train, killing seven and injuring dozens.
• Hours later a railway bridge in Kursk’s Zheleznogorsk district collapsed under a passing freight train, derailing the locomotive and injuring several workers.
• Russia’s Investigative Committee said both incidents resulted from explosions and are being probed as terrorist acts.
• Government officials and lawmakers attributed the collapses to “illegal interference” and accused Ukraine of sabotage, but Kyiv has not responded to these specific allegations.
• The collapses follow repeated cross-border shelling, drone strikes and sabotage attempts and occur just days before proposed peace talks in Istanbul.