Overview

• On June 1, 2025, a portion of a bridge in Russia’s Kursk region gave way under a freight train, causing part of the train to fall onto a road and injuring one driver.
• In May 2024, a bridge collapse in the Bryansk region sent a passenger train off its tracks, killing seven people and injuring 69 others.
• Russia’s state railway company attributed the Bryansk failure to “illegal interference,” and Governor Alexander Bogomas said the bridge had been blown up in an explosion.
• Andrej Klischas, head of the parliamentary constitutional committee, publicly blamed Ukraine for the Bryansk incident, though Kyiv has not responded to the accusation.
• Investigators say it remains unclear whether the two collapses are connected as they probe sabotage claims in heavily targeted border areas.