A Ukrainian soldier was seen helping passengers out of a burning passenger train struck by Russian drone on January 27.
At least five people were reported dead after a Russian Shahed drone struck a civilian passenger train in northeastern Ukraine. Emergency workers who arrived to assist victims of the attack were met with strewn body parts in Kharkiv on Tuesday.
The Barvinkove-Lviv-Chop passenger train had nearly 300 passengers and was used by civilians to visit soldiers on the front lines.
President Volodymyr Zelensky called the attack an act of terrorism.
In one of the videos from the incident, a military official with the call sign ‘Omar’ helped passengers evacuate. One of them was a woman with a baby.
The man opened the doors of the carraige and lowered the ladder, helping the woman get out of the car along with her belongings and the baby carrier.
The soldiers directed the passengers into the nearby forest as another drone was reportedly spotted closeby, according to one of the soldiers who recounted the incident.
Ten carriages that did not sustain any damage continued onwards to its destiation after a delay of about 5 hours.
WATCH | Ukrainian soldier rescues woman with baby from burning passenger train after Russian drone strike
